{"id":3069,"date":"2019-10-21T12:02:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T06:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T06:36:07","slug":"are-you-following-naval-ravikant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/are-you-following-naval-ravikant\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you following Naval Ravikant?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I dug out this very readable profile of Naval Ravikant, written in October 2015, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAAAx5MBZdIGDq73hwGY2Nm7rzRnrgBu0ZM\/\">Sarah Lacy<\/a>, founder of Pando and Chairman Mom. That month Anglelist was announcing multiple initiatives including a $400m fund with CSC group from China, a vehicle for VC\u2019s to engage early and a Tinder like app for individual jobbers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The core of the profile, well it was not called so, was how patiently Naval Ravikant was building AngelList into a formidable force in the early stage investment game. Literally brick by brick. He spoke about raising capital for a 10 year requirement. Sarah writes: \u201cThat\u2019s not usually how entrepreneurs raise capital. Typically they jump from 18-month lily pad to 18-month lily pad, hoping they\u2019ll prove enough \u201ctraction\u201d and \u201cmilestones\u201d over that time to get the next round.\u201d Naval apparently explained &#8211; \u201cCompanies only fail for two reasons: The founder gives up or they run out money.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allow contrarian ideas to flow. Look for alternate narratives to sharpen your own focus that matches your own temperament. Read this article.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where I learnt this # 294 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most patient man in Silicon Valley <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pando.com\/2015\/10\/12\/most-patient-man-silicon-valley\/\">https:\/\/pando.com\/2015\/10\/12\/most-patient-man-silicon-valley\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dug out this very readable profile of Naval Ravikant, written in October 2015, by Sarah Lacy, founder of Pando and Chairman Mom. That month Anglelist was announcing multiple initiatives including a $400m fund with CSC group from China, a vehicle for VC\u2019s to engage early and a Tinder like app for individual jobbers.<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/are-you-following-naval-ravikant\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,83],"tags":[70,81],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-learnt-today","category-startup","tag-alwayslearning","tag-startups"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-Nv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}