We Chase Truth, Love, Beauty Despite Their Costs
Truth, love, and beauty are all pursued for their own sake, even if they make us worse off.
AI Agents Create Instant Apps, Threatening iPhone Dominance
AI coding agents can now deliver one-shot custom apps straight to your phone. It’s the beginning of the end for the iPhone’s dominance.
Liquidity Gap Lets Jensen Pay Estate Tax, Others Can't
Jensen is liquid. As odious as the precedent is, he can pay it. His competitors, startup founders, are illiquid. Their paper valuations can't be cashed in. Even a "five year payment plan" wipes them out. Clever framing designed to normalize the estate...
Founders Must Directly Own Early Recruiting Decisions
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. They’re self-managing, low-ego, hardworking, highly competent, builders, technical—maybe one or two sellers—but you can’t watch everything....
Invest in Unstoppable People Creating Inevitable Breakthroughs
The secret to investing is to invest in unstoppable people building inevitable things.
Opinionated Vision Drives Simplicity in Great Products
Good Products are Opinionated. “Every great founder I’ve seen up close, or even from afar, is highly opinionated and they’re almost dictatorial in how they run things. Also, early-stage teams are opinionated. And the products they build are opinionated. Opinionated means they...
Founders Make Best Marketers in Ever‑Changing Channel Landscape
Marketing is a creative and adversarial game. Channels get discovered, exploited, and discarded. New products need new distribution. It’s hard to hire rule-breakers, so the best marketers tend to be the founders themselves.
Curate People: Hire the Best, Not Just Anyone
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...
Collection: Curate People
In this episode, Naval and host Nivi argue that recruiting is the founder's most critical, non‑outsourcable function, shaping a startup's DNA and ensuring a high‑performing, low‑ego team that can execute the product vision. They stress that early hires must match...
China Leverages State Power to Forge Global Monopolies
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.
Excellent Products Resist Easy Variation and Change
Good Products Are Hard to Vary. https://t.co/5EGzOpQ9xr
