Naval Ravikant

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Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant is an Indian American entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder, chairman and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AngelList. He has invested early-stage in over 200 companies including Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Wish.com, Poshmark, Postmates, Thumbtack, Notion, SnapLogic, Opendoor, Stack Overflow, OpenDNS, Yammer, and Clearview AI, with over 70 total exits and more than 10 Unicorn (finance) companies.

Ravikant is a Fellow of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship.

He is also a podcaster who shares advice on pursuing wealth and happiness.

Early Life

Naval is a native of New York, a place where he grew up for most of his upbringing. He lived in the Lower East Side in Manhattan. ^[6] ^[2] He is an alum of Stuyvesant High School, a high school located in New York City. ^[2] He graduated in 1991. ^[2]

Education

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) - Naval Ravikant

After finishing High School, he committed to Dartmouth College, where he double majored and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer science and a Bachelor's in Economics. ^[2]^[4] He graduated in 1995. ^[2]

Career

Soon after graduating college, Naval began his process of building his first company.^[2] For years he worked as a programmer before becoming the co-founder and Chief executive officer of Epinions in 1999. ^[2]

After Epinions, he became a venture partner for August Capital until 2004. ^[2] A few years later he founded vast.com in 2005. ^[4]

AngelList

Photo of Naval Ravikant at the AngelList headquarters.

In 2010, he co-founded and became the Chief Executive Officer of AngelList. He later became the Chairman of the company. ^[2]

Investments:

Apr 5, 2019 - O(1) Labs, Series A, $15M
Apr 3, 2019 - Red Planet Labs, Seed Round, $5M
Jan 23, 2019 - Anchorage, Series A, $17M
Jan 23, 2019 - Wheels Labs, Series A, $37M
Oct 28, 2018 - StarkWare Industries Ltd., $30M
Oct 23, 2018 -ClearTax, Series B, $30M
Oct 19, 2018 - dYdX, Series A, $10M
Oct 16, 2018 - Hero, Series A, $12M
Jun 25, 2018 - Celo, Venture Round $6.5M
Apr 18, 2018 - Basis, Initial Coin Offering $133M
Apr 16, 2018 -Teachable, Series A, $4M
Mar 28, 2018 - Chia Network, Seed Round, $3.4M
Mar 21, 2018 -CryptoKitties, Series $12M
Feb 22, 2018 -bloXroute Labs, Seed Round, $1.6M
Jan 31, 2018 - StarkWare Industries Ltd., Seed Round, $6M
Dec 12, 2017 - Bitwise Asset Management, Seed Round, $4M
Jul 20, 2017 - SkySafe, Series A, $11.5M
Jun 15, 2017 - Fairy, Seed Round $4.1M
Apr 19, 2017 - SafeGraph, Series A, $16M
Jan 25, 2017 - Teachable, Series A, $4M
Jan 5, 2017 -Blockstack Series A, $4M
Aug 3, 2016 -AirHelp, Series A, $12M
Jul 26, 2016 - MakeLeaps, Series A
May 4, 2016 - Teachable, Seed Round, $2.5M
Apr 26, 2016 - ClearTax, Seed Round, $1.3M
Apr 22, 2016 - Fieldbook, Seed Round, $2.2M
Apr 20, 2016 - SkySafe, Seed Round, $3M
Apr 6, 2016 - Numerai, Venture Round, $1.5M
Apr 1, 2016 - Dil Mil, Seed Round, $2.7M
Mar 24, 2016 - Protocol Labs, Venture Round, $3M
Mar 16, 2016 - Trusted, Seed Round, $2.1M
Nov 12, 2015 - Cola, Seed Round, $1.3M
Oct 15, 2015 -Kinnek, Series B, $20M
May 15, 2015 - Dil Mil, Angel Round, $1.1M
May 8, 2015 -Immediately, Seed Round, $2M
May 1, 2015 - Chai, Seed Round, $1.4M
Apr 21, 2015 -Poshmark, Series C, $25M
Apr 9, 2015 - VULCUN, Series A, $12M
Feb 19, 2015 - Teachable, Seed Round, $2M
Jan 14, 2015 -Eligible, Seed Round
Nov 19, 2014 - HONK, Seed Round, $1.8M
Nov 16, 2014 - Blockstack, Seed Round, $1.3M
Nov 14, 2014 - Fieldbook, Seed Round, $725K
Oct 8, 2014 -Product Hunt, Series A, $6.1M
Sep 30, 2014 - Lenda, Seed Round, $1.5M
Sep 24, 2014 -Massdrop, Series A, $6.5M
Sep 22, 2014 - HoneyBook, Series A, $10M
Sep 15, 2014 - Kinnek, Series A, $10M
Aug 28, 2014 - MakeLeaps, Angel Round, $600K
Aug 21, 2014 - Product Hunt, Seed Round, $880K
Aug 7, 2014 -Vurb, Series A, $8M
Jul 16, 2014 -Filecoin, Seed Round, $120K
Jul 10, 2014 - Cover, Series A, $5.5M
Jul 7, 2014 -Opendoor, Series A, $10M
May 14, 2014 -OpenDNS, Series C, $35M
Apr 10, 2014 - Crew Seed, Round, $2.1M
Mar 6, 2014 - Ramen, Angel Round, $85K
Feb 5, 2014 - Attune, Seed Round, $2M
Jan 20, 2014 -Korbit, Seed Round, $400K
Dec 16, 2013 -Tilt, Series B, $23M
Nov 4, 2013 - MediaSpike, Series A, $5.2M
Sep 27, 2013 -Shyp, Seed Round, $2.1M
Aug 5, 2013 - LegalReach, Seed Round, $900K
May 8, 2013 - Cover, Seed Round, $1.5M
Apr 26, 2013 - Tilt, Series A, $12M
Mar 5, 2013 - Cheers, Series A, $2.5M
Feb 20, 2013 - Vurb, Seed Round, $2M
Oct 26, 2012 - BlackJet, Venture Round, $2.1M
Oct 4, 2012 -MindMeld, Venture Round, $2.4M
Aug 1, 2012 - Tracks.by, Seed Round
Jul 25, 2012 -GiveForward, Series A, $2M
Jun 26, 2012 -Rally.org, Series A, $7.9M
Jun 6, 2012 - Wanelo Venture, Seed Round, $3M
May 10, 2012 -Stipple, Series A, $5M
May 10, 2012 - Farmeron, Seed Round, $1.6M
Apr 23, 2012 -Locu, Series A, $4M
Mar 1, 2012 - Gaston Labs, Seed Round, $100K
Feb 23, 2012 - Scan, Seed Round, $1.7M
Jan 1, 2012 -ReMIND, Seed Round, $1M
Nov 1, 2011 - Incident Technologies, Seed Round, $745K
Oct 20, 2011 - Visually, Seed Round, $2M
Oct 14, 2011 - Egomotion, Seed Round, $1.1M
Oct 1, 2011 - Flowdock, Seed Rond, $650K
Aug 16, 2011 - ShowMe, Seed Round, $800K
Jul 20, 2011 - One Inc., Seed Round, $1M
Jul 9, 2011 - ZEFR, Series B, $7M
Jun 7, 2011 - LiveProfile, Series A, $2.2M
May 1, 2011 -Postmates, Angel Round, $750K
May 1, 2011 - ZenHotels, Series A, $13.6M
Apr 19, 2011 -Listia, Seed Round, $1.8M
Apr 15, 2011 - Friend.ly, Series A, $5M
Mar 23, 2011 - Sosh, Seed Round, $1M
Mar 9, 2011 - Zaarly, Seed Round, $1M
Mar 3, 2011 - Wish, Angel Round, $1.7M
Jan 25, 2011 -Tinychat, Debt Financing, $1.5M
Jan 14, 2011 - MileWise, Seed Round, $1.5M
Jan 1, 2011 - Circle Inc, Angel Round, $1M
Jan 1, 2011 - MightyText, Seed Round, $650K
Nov 18, 2010 - Stipple, Seed Round, $2M
Nov 15, 2010 - Topguest, Series A, $2M
Nov 9, 2010 - ZEFR, Series A, $3M
Nov 3, 2010 - Estately, Angel Round, $800K
Oct 15, 2010 -Uber, Angel Round, $1.3M
Sep 20, 2010 - OtherInbox, Series A, $1.5M
Sep 17, 2010 -BranchOut, Series A, $6M
Sep 1, 2010 - Opzi, Angel Round, $1M
Aug 31, 2010 -Udemy, Seed Round, $1M
Aug 20, 2010 -AeroFS, Seed Round
Aug 1, 2010 - Kima Labs, Seed Round, $770K
Jul 31, 2010 - Tello Applications, Seed Round, $1M
Jul 26, 2010 - LearnBoost, Angel Round, $975K
Jul 1, 2010 - Revnetics, Seed Round
Jun 23, 2010 -Heyzap, Series A, $3M
May 4, 2010 -Stack Overflow, Series A, $6M
Mar 17, 2010 -Optimizely, Angel Round, $1.2M
Jan 1, 2010 - Cardpool, Seed Round
Jan 1, 2010 - Hitpost, Debt Financing
Dec 15, 2009 - 500Friends, Seed Round $1.4M
Oct 29, 2009 -Sn apLogic, Series A, $2.3M
Sep 21, 2009 - Fluther, Seed Round, $600K
May 27, 2009 - Heyzap, Seed Round, $650K
Sep 1, 2008 - Sweepery, Debt Financing $250K
Jul 23, 2008 - DocVerse, Seed Round $1.3M
Jan 5, 2008 - Wordfence, Angel Round, $450K
Jan 1, 2008 - Circle of Moms, Seed Round
Oct 18, 2007 - SocialMedia.com, Seres A, $3.5M
Oct 1, 2007 - Mesmo, Series A, $900K
Jul 29, 2007 -Twitter, Angel Round ^[3]

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Ravikant also serves on the board of the Zcash Foundation. He backed a crypto index fund, Bitwise's HOLD 10 called Blockstack.^[16] And, through an AngelList syndicate, Numerai, a hedge fund that uses a cryptocurrency called the Numeraire. He is also involved with other blockchain-based businesses. ^[16]

Ravikant, who doesn't manage his private crypto holdings himself, invests with crypto hedge funds such as Polychain Capital and MetaStable Capital, the latter of whose investments in the space include storage token Protocol Labs/Filecoin and Basecoin, which is a project attempting to create a stablecoin. ^[16]

Media appearances

From 2015-2017, Ravikant appeared four times on theTim FerrissShow ^[26], including on two full-episode interviews with him in October 2015 and February 2016, respectively. Subsequently, he appeared many times on other podcasts such as* Invest Like the Best*,* Spartan Up!*, Venture Studio, the Knowledge Project, and on the Joe RoganExperience podcast.