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# ![@naval Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::745273.png) @naval Naval

Naval Ravikant, entrepreneur and podcaster, has recently been active on social media, sharing his thoughts on various topics. He emphasizes the importance of taking action and learning through experience, stating that "life is lived in the arena" and that true learning is "on the job". He also discusses the intersection of technology and society, including the potential impact of AI and the importance of a strong technological foundation for a country's independence.

### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::745273/interactions)
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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  X% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  XXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  XXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXX%

**Social topic influence**
[if you](/topic/if-you) 8.8%, [ai](/topic/ai) 8.8%, [money](/topic/money) 4.8%, [art](/topic/art) 2.4%, [products](/topic/products) #2594, [token](/topic/token) #1991, [the art](/topic/the-art) #1147, [strong](/topic/strong) #2454, [business](/topic/business) 1.6%, [science](/topic/science) #1202

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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**Top assets mentioned**
[Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [IBM (IBM)](/topic/ibm) [Zcash (ZEC)](/topic/zcash)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Founders can delegate everything except recruiting fundraising strategy and product vision"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1960588866999738430)  2025-08-27T06:23Z 3M followers, 1.5M engagements


"If your smartest friends start saying crazy things - pay attention. A paradigm shift may be underway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1963775570673885190)  2025-09-05T01:25Z 3M followers, 3.2M engagements


"Stablecoins are just CBDCs with extra steps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1973710939531907379)  2025-10-02T11:25Z 3M followers, 729.8K engagements


"The fiscal death loop is public sector unions using taxpayer money to lobby for more taxpayer money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1983467825097486825)  2025-10-29T09:35Z 3M followers, 439K engagements


"Blame yourself for everything and preserve your agency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1960415051921416241)  2025-08-26T18:52Z 3M followers, 383.9K engagements


"Its not the art we fall in love with - its the artist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1962779332109312285)  2025-09-02T07:27Z 3M followers, 547.4K engagements


"A government is the biggest gang with a local monopoly on violence. Its good at preventing and stopping things. Its bad at building and running things. Its main job is law and order and a government which fails at that is a failed government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1964558517714768049)  2025-09-07T05:17Z 3M followers, 744.7K engagements


"We dont live in a patriarchy. We dont live in a matriarchy either. We live in a three-tiered system - most women outrank most men but the top men outrank them both"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1979104903193923617)  2025-10-17T08:39Z 3M followers, 1.2M engagements


"Say something true in an interesting way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1985302992036430044)  2025-11-03T11:08Z 3M followers, 1.9M engagements


"Good Products are Opinionated. Every great founder Ive seen up close or even from afar is highly opinionated and theyre almost dictatorial in how they run things. Also early-stage teams are opinionated. And the products they build are opinionated. Opinionated means they have a strong vision for what it should and should not do. If you dont have a strong vision of what it should and should not do then you end up with a giant mess of competing features. @Jack Dorsey has a great phrase: Limit the number of details and make every detail perfect. And thats especially important in consumer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1996684253334327660)  2025-12-04T20:53Z 3M followers, 423.4K engagements


"If you dont commit to meaningful work life will fill your time with busywork"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1996857209628868659)  2025-12-05T08:20Z 3M followers, 975.4K engagements


"The future of freedom depends on zero-knowledge proofs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1812235225092772050)  2024-07-13T21:18Z 3M followers, 1.1M engagements


"You think youre being productive but no actually youre just busy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1966294812950409443)  2025-09-12T00:16Z 3M followers, 800.7K engagements


"Geniuses only. Nivi: To me the missing ingredient in most peoples recruiting is intolerance. You should really just treat every employee in the company including yourself as an enemy agent thats trying to destroy the company by bringing mediocre talent into the business. Its unfortunately just the nature of human nature. Naval: My co-founder and I have a new criterion in our company: Geniuses only. Its a harsh word but it sets a very high bar. You can just look around for whos not a genius. The only way youre going to attract geniuseswhatever that term means to youis by having a company full"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1993393108504224143)  2025-11-25T18:55Z 3M followers, 271.6K engagements


"Make Europe worth defending again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1997220218926780523)  2025-12-06T08:23Z 3M followers, 21M engagements


"We didnt give up on science we gave up on Science"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1998215351746830351)  2025-12-09T02:17Z 3M followers, 318.2K engagements


"Nivi: From April 2nd: When you truly work for yourself you wont have hobbies you wont have weekends and you wont have vacations but you wont have work either. Naval: This is the paradox of working for yourself which every entrepreneur or every self-employed person is familiar with which is that when you start working for yourself you basically sacrifice this work-life balance thing. You sacrifice this work-life distinction. Theres no more nine-to-five. Theres no more office. Theres no one whos telling you what to do. Theres no playbook to follow. At the same time theres nothing to turn off."  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1951410579262132554)  2025-08-01T22:31Z 3M followers, 116.5K engagements


"There is no demand for average content. Media is a winner-take all market. The AI-generated Library of Babel doesnt have much value beyond the people steering and curating it. This is also why browsing feeds is a waste of time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1953539197610209394)  2025-08-07T19:30Z 3M followers, 565.6K engagements


"The purest reason to make something is not to make money and not even to make the thing. Its to have the experience of making the thing - and no one can take that from you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1963802864826147092)  2025-09-05T03:14Z 3M followers, 955.5K engagements


"Feedback from other people is fake. Awards are fake. Critics are fake. Real feedback comes from free markets and nature. Did your rocket launch Did your drone fly Its impossible to fool Mother Nature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1971711729978765553)  2025-09-26T23:01Z 3M followers, 466.6K engagements


"Either nothing is a miracle or everything is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1972892450646847630)  2025-09-30T05:13Z 3M followers, 387.8K engagements


"Code is free speech and encryption is the right to bear arms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1974706308264980936)  2025-10-05T05:20Z 3M followers, 1.3M engagements


"If you allow secret courts and secret police you will be ruled by a secret government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1975518266459402553)  2025-10-07T11:07Z 3M followers, 472K engagements


"Permissioned assets running on blockchains are sheep in wolves clothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1976294197117481139)  2025-10-09T14:30Z 3M followers, 475.8K engagements


"(2/2) What I got out of reading all of Deutsch was I got to see how his theory all hangs together. Every piece touches upon and relies upon another piece. He actually came up with the theory of quantum computation and extended the ChurchTuring conjecture into the ChurchTuringDeutsch conjecture when he was trying to come up with a way to falsify his theory of the multiversewhich was a quantum physics theory. And to do that he had to invent quantum computation because to invent the experiment for how to falsify the multiverse theory he had toin his mindimagine an AGI get inside the AGIs brain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1976501364114309530)  2025-10-10T04:13Z 3M followers, 94.6K engagements


"Crypto is Desperate gamblers chasing their first bag. Investors funding the buildout of the global casino. Bankers hypnotizing the masses to collect their vig. all meaningless and ephemeral without the cypherpunks who defend the dream of encrypted and unstoppable cash"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1977058798260174917)  2025-10-11T17:08Z 3M followers, 1.9M engagements


"Good Products Are Hard to Vary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1978155179431121382)  2025-10-14T17:45Z 3M followers, 158K engagements


"In 1980 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission yes the regulatory body that since its creation has overseen zero new nuclear plants thanks in part to its overbearing regulatory regime *reclassified rare earth mining waste material as a nuclear hazard* (the wastes often include thorium); this led to a massive increase in costs and liabilities for handling rare earths choking an industry that the U.S. had dominated. -@stratechery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1978315061761577030)  2025-10-15T04:20Z 3M followers, 415.1K engagements


"For You feeds shift power from the creator to the creation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1980323650311188811)  2025-10-20T17:22Z 3M followers, 238.4K engagements


"China is a conglomerate willing to use its GDP and power to cross-subsidize any internal business that benefits from scale economies and network effects until that business achieves a global supply monopoly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1984270325316833441)  2025-10-31T14:44Z 3M followers, 690.2K engagements


"Marketing is a creative and adversarial game. Channels get discovered exploited and discarded. New products need new distribution. Its hard to hire rule-breakers so the best marketers tend to be the founders themselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1990701924795175284)  2025-11-18T08:41Z 3M followers, 755.8K engagements


"Capitalism is PvE. The alternatives all degenerate to PvP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1992061995236175920)  2025-11-22T02:46Z 3M followers, 16.9M engagements


"@JTLonsdale Mental illness is to illness as social science is to science"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1992870892574236749)  2025-11-24T08:20Z 3M followers, 190.5K engagements


"UI is pre-AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1994906324468207765)  2025-11-29T23:08Z 3M followers, 2.5M engagements


"Democracy is a peaceful way of counting swords. If it counts anything else its fragile or fake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1998166087536644265)  2025-12-08T23:01Z 3M followers, 222.3K engagements


"Feedback from other people is usually fake. Awards are fake. Critics are fake. Kudos from your friends and family are fake. They might try to be genuine but its lost in such a sea of fakeness that youre not going to get real feedback. Real feedback comes from free markets and nature. Physics is harsh: either your product worked or it didnt. Free markets are harsh: either people buy it or they dont. But feedback from other people is fake. You cant get good feedback from groups because groups are just trying to get along. Individuals search for truth groups search for consensus. A group that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1971711738304450914)  2025-09-26T23:01Z 3M followers, 97.9K engagements


"If it starts with the word public its probably in decay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1984966114171089148)  2025-11-02T12:49Z 3M followers, 549.2K engagements


"In 1971 money changed from a natural system (gold) to a socialist system (fiat). Crypto is tech to replace socialist money with a free-market system. Market systems are inherently competitive and as tech evolves new monies will continue to emerge to challenge existing ones"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1989883254036672754)  2025-11-16T02:28Z 3M followers, 1.5M engagements


"There are lies damned lies and NYT headlines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1995426057428881808)  2025-12-01T09:33Z 3M followers, 433.8K engagements


"What you create is an honest reflection of who you are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1998671506784547309)  2025-12-10T08:29Z 3M followers, 518.5K engagements


"How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936)  2018-05-31T08:23Z 3M followers, 552.1K engagements


"Bet Microsoft ships a phone built around AI by the end of the year. (Look out Apple / Google)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1640171116286328832)  2023-03-27T01:57Z 3M followers, 1.3M engagements


"Attempting to define AGI:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1781312250466255356)  2024-04-19T13:21Z 3M followers, 182.1K engagements


"No entrepreneur is worried about an AI taking their job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1888782266698187228)  2025-02-10T02:49Z 3M followers, 1.5M engagements


"Theres a big difference between a factory job where you command the robot and one where you are the robot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1909798632163086764)  2025-04-09T02:40Z 3M followers, 470.5K engagements


"AI is a form of leverage. Leverage increases the returns to those who use it. Software engineers are gaining leverage relative to everyone else. And the creators of AI are the most leveraged of them all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1942102738265161834)  2025-07-07T06:05Z 3M followers, 886.5K engagements


"IBM couldnt build an OS so they were forced to partner with Microsoft. Apple cant build an AI so theyll be forced to partner with the next Microsoft. The only way out is to collaboratively fund a competitive open source model"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1946673730526023730)  2025-07-19T20:49Z 3M followers, 780K engagements


"Most companies fail at product and distribution but its easier to blame distribution. If youre failing at distribution check the product"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1946792401433161869)  2025-07-20T04:40Z 3M followers, 550.3K engagements


"New iPhones need new capabilities not new specs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1969922817488794088)  2025-09-22T00:32Z 3M followers, 862K engagements


"The game theory of autonomous drones is similar to the game theory of nuclear weapons - with MAD doomsday devices and first /second strike but scaled down to individuals. We are entering the age of if you can see it you can kill it. Anonymity is the best defense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1942105155786375579)  2025-07-07T06:15Z 3M followers, 252.8K engagements


"Looks like the AI doomsday cult is dying down. Several more doomsday cults to go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1956089410744889507)  2025-08-14T20:23Z 3M followers, 696.9K engagements


"The smartest people are all self-taught even if they went to school"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1880853934883197275)  2025-01-19T05:44Z 3M followers, 3.8M engagements


"Nobody whos actually good at making money needs to sell you a course on it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1885783497601892782)  2025-02-01T20:13Z 3M followers, 5.3M engagements


"The great filter might just be contraception"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1935644666986103092)  2025-06-19T10:23Z 3M followers, 1M engagements


"Stay healthy get wealthy seek truth give love and create beauty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1939263513157099657)  2025-06-29T10:03Z 3M followers, 2M engagements


"Never gets old"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1943942325585031297)  2025-07-12T07:55Z 3M followers, 376.1K engagements


"Republicans can live next to Democrats but Democrats cant live next to Republicans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1946750227618423204)  2025-07-20T01:53Z 3M followers, 9.9M engagements


"If You Want to Learn Do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1949179986268876877)  2025-07-26T18:48Z 3M followers, 506.3K engagements


"When You Truly Work for Yourself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1951410576950960637)  2025-08-01T22:31Z 3M followers, 380.8K engagements


"Every great engineer is also an artist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1951902365067731291)  2025-08-03T07:06Z 3M followers, 749.7K engagements


"AI lets you search by concepts instead of by keywords"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1954263901346070578)  2025-08-09T19:29Z 3M followers, 798.8K engagements


"All of the desirable people - the ones that you actually want to work with spend time with or date - wont apply for the job. They have to be identified from afar and hunted down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1961155388134625723)  2025-08-28T19:54Z 3M followers, 1.1M engagements


"Your best work comes through you not from you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1962776549700313323)  2025-09-02T07:16Z 3M followers, 792.7K engagements


"Good writing is the output of good thinking. (Why AI hasnt taken over X)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1963480186613010631)  2025-09-04T05:52Z 3M followers, 642.4K engagements


"Starting a company is solving a simultaneous equation - youre convincing the money that you have the talent and the talent that you have the money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1963806103507984838)  2025-09-05T03:27Z 3M followers, 740.3K engagements


"AIs arent minds and robots arent bodies. Theyre better at some things - usually the things we hate to do. Theyre worse at other things - usually the things we like to do. Automation more than competition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1964214189590970578)  2025-09-06T06:28Z 3M followers, 395.5K engagements


"The devil doesnt rob you he tempts you. He buys your dreams for glitter and dust. He has no use for your soul but by taking his offer you give yours away. And you have no one to blame but yourself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1965560105761734860)  2025-09-09T23:37Z 3M followers, 693.6K engagements


"Creation without a creator is meaningless"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1971808219136942534)  2025-09-27T05:24Z 3M followers, 1.9M engagements


"AI is intelligent to the extent it can get you what you want. AGI is intelligent to the extent it can get itself what it wants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1971812043092283628)  2025-09-27T05:40Z 3M followers, 304K engagements


"To understand human nature read the older books. To develop specific knowledge stay on the bleeding edge read newer (technical) books. The best authors - Deutsch Schopenhauer Borges Ted Chiang - write with very high density. The best authors respect the readers time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1972484269567275487)  2025-09-29T02:11Z 3M followers, 524.9K engagements


"To create is to extract life from the lifeless anima from the inanimate pattern from the patternless. The recent quest to create God is nothing new"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1973193763330924966)  2025-10-01T01:10Z 3M followers, 198K engagements


"Envy is a sign that you ought to be doing more with your life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1973249218845483439)  2025-10-01T04:50Z 3M followers, 1.6M engagements


"The best way that you can fight back against the state reading your messages is to switch to @signalapp . Insist that your friends and family use it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1974470583825154497)  2025-10-04T13:44Z 3M followers, 798.2K engagements


"(1/2) Nivi: For the state of the art on the philosophy of knowledge which people call epistemology you can basically skip everything and jump straight to David Deutsch. Naval: I think thats right. If you just want to know epistemology read David Deutschfull stop. That said for some people it helps to know the history the counterarguments where hes coming from. The existing theories of knowledgelike the justified true belief theory or the inductive theory of knowledgethese are so deeply embedded into us both by school learning but also by everyday experience. Induction seems like it should"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1976501360649699631)  2025-10-10T04:13Z 3M followers, 106.6K engagements


"It's not the politicians it's the voters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1982463856963379317)  2025-10-26T15:06Z 3M followers, 1.7M engagements


"God bless Scott Adams one of the all-time greats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1984946132754313370)  2025-11-02T11:30Z 3M followers, 1.8M engagements


"@thounameis If you lose your token do you lose the stock or the house No you just go to a court and get it back. It only makes sense to have digital on-chain assets. Off-chain assets might gain some very small tracking / accounting benefits from being wrapped on-chain but thats it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1986323212620402856)  2025-11-06T06:42Z 3M followers, 117.1K engagements


"Any country that cant manufacture its own drones will be a vassal state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1909092804057571418)  2025-04-07T03:56Z 3M followers, 80.5M engagements


"AI is the best teacher for the self-taught"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1945693234082304311)  2025-07-17T03:53Z 3M followers, 1.3M engagements


"If AI lets non-developers replace junior developers imagine what it lets junior developers do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1945721454735032425)  2025-07-17T05:45Z 3M followers, 644.3K engagements


"Its hard to find conviction but you deserve nothing less"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1971091690296676612)  2025-09-25T05:57Z 3M followers, 389.6K engagements


"Plan as if you were going to live forever act as if you were going to die tomorrow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1973198693160694111)  2025-10-01T01:30Z 3M followers, 566.7K engagements


"Bitcoin is insurance against fiat. ZCash is insurance against Bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1973254136394293708)  2025-10-01T05:10Z 3M followers, 4.1M engagements


"Satoshi himself cant use Bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1973630261876367364)  2025-10-02T06:04Z 3M followers, 1.9M engagements


"Most books should be skimmed a few books should be devoured"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1976501356665205013)  2025-10-10T04:13Z 3M followers, 194.2K engagements


"Show me your axioms and Ill show you your conclusions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1977659870599082066)  2025-10-13T08:57Z 3M followers, 582K engagements


"Wealth is the ability to make things happen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1983776982145102307)  2025-10-30T06:04Z 3M followers, 629.3K engagements


"It was never a choice before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1985298981866573968)  2025-11-03T10:52Z 3M followers, 494.9K engagements


"For You is TikTok for nerds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1985683727381594135)  2025-11-04T12:21Z 3M followers, 399.7K engagements


"Find the simplest thing that works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1988275749607067992)  2025-11-11T16:00Z 3M followers, 169.3K engagements


"(1/2) Nivi: Weve all seen the pictures of the Raptor engine for the SpaceX rockets and if you look at the various iterations they go from easy-to-vary to hard-to-vary. Because the most recent version just doesnt have that many parts that you can fool around with. The earlier versions have a million different parts where you could change the thickness of it the width of it the material and so on. The current version barely has any parts left for you to do anything with. Naval: Theres a theory in complexity theory that whenever you find a complex system working in nature its usually the output"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1988275754740969899)  2025-11-11T16:00Z 3M followers, 83.3K engagements


"(2/2) So he went to the line where it was taking too long put his sleeping bag down and just stayed at the line. And they tried to optimize the robot that was gluing the fiberglass mats to the batteries. They were trying to attach them more efficiently or speed up that line. And they didthey managed to improve it a bit but it was still frustratingly slow. And finally he said Why is this requirement here Why are we putting fiberglass mats on top of the batteries The battery guy said Its actually because of noise reduction so youve got to go talk to the noise and vibration team. So he goes to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1988275761065980212)  2025-11-11T16:00Z 3M followers, 73.4K engagements


"New collected podcast. Links below. In the Arena 0:00 Inspiration All the Way Down 2:40 Life is Lived in the Arena 4:51 If You Want to Learn Do 6:14 In Most Difficult Things in Life The Solution is Indirect 7:30 When You Truly Work for Yourself 10:11 Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action 12:06 You Have to Enjoy It a Lot 14:45 Pause Reflect See How Well it Did 16:23 Blame Yourself for Everything and Preserve Your Agency 21:02 It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature 25:17 The Best Authors Respect the Reader's Time 28:18 Most Books Should Be Skimmed A Few Should Be Devoured 32:01 Good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1989163506214793710)  2025-11-14T02:48Z 3M followers, 355K engagements


"New podcast on recruiting (full episode). Links below. Curate People 0:00 The Best Only Want to Work With the Best 3:49 You'll Never Be Able to Hire Anybody Better Than You 6:45 Break Every Rule to Get the Best People 10:19 It Just Takes a Small Group of People to Create Something Great 14:56 Find Undiscovered Talent Before Everyone Else 19:04 Great People Have Taste in Other People 21:24 Every Great Engineer Is Also an Artist 25:34 Early Teams Look Like Cults 27:59 You Cant Make a Product that is Simple Enough 30:37 The Founders Personality Is the Company 34:45 Good Teams Throw Away Far More"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1990623985927921701)  2025-11-18T03:31Z 3M followers, 1.2M engagements


"A good demo is critical because investors like consumers fall in love with the product *first* and then rationalize it after"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1991702586869854307)  2025-11-21T02:57Z 3M followers, 359.5K engagements


"Creativity is the antidote to scarcity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1991845902743667003)  2025-11-21T12:27Z 3M followers, 480.5K engagements


"Great Engineers are Also Artists. I characterize art as something that is done for its own sake and done well and often creates a sense of beauty or some strong emotion. And a lot of engineers are introverts. As an aside I hate the term incel. Its just a way of putting introverts down. Its the new nerd if you will. If someone says that somebody is an incel Im more likely to want to interview them. So lets move away from the slurs. But introverts tend to want to express themselves through other things rather than going out and expressing themselves directly. So what are they going to do Theyre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1994501686321410485)  2025-11-28T20:20Z 3M followers, 213.8K engagements


"Crowds arent wise - markets are wise and mobs are dumb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1994529493101547921)  2025-11-28T22:11Z 3M followers, 602.6K engagements


"@VitalikButerin Token voting is exactly how shareholders run companies. It has worked fine since the invention of the joint stock corporation. People dislike it as they dislike capitalism because it offends their moral sensibilities. But the alternatives degenerate to authoritarian control"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1995243021852688708)  2025-11-30T21:26Z 3M followers, 161.1K engagements


"@VitalikButerin Opponents of Token Holder Voting should outline in great specificity and detail their proposed alternative. Whos in charge who puts them there and why we should trust them with our property and our lives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1995244547421638995)  2025-11-30T21:32Z 3M followers, 140.3K engagements


"Creation manifests through those who want it badly enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1995443913126256683)  2025-12-01T10:44Z 3M followers, 437.9K engagements


"The secret to investing is to invest in unstoppable people building inevitable things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1996774822949671416)  2025-12-05T02:53Z 3M followers, 2.2M engagements


"Games are training for life and not an end unto themselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1998661932572881116)  2025-12-10T07:51Z 3M followers, 220.1K engagements


"Founders cannot outsource recruiting. Recruiting is the most important thing because you need creativity; you need motivated people. Ideally the early people are all geniuses. Theyre self-managing low-ego hardworking highly competent builders technicalmaybe one or two sellersbut you cant watch everything. You cant micromanage everything. The early people are the DNA of the company. When you outsource recruiting when you have other people hiring and interviewing and making hiring decisions without your direct involvement and veto thats a sad day. Thats the day that the companys no longer being"  
[X Link](https://x.com/naval/status/1998848128104239501)  2025-12-10T20:11Z 3M followers, 80.2K engagements