Eric Jorgenson - Author & Angel Investor | How One Book About Naval Ravikant Changed Everything

Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Success Story Media

Business, Careers, Self-improvement, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Eric Jorgenson is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investor known for distilling the ideas of modern visionaries into powerful, accessible frameworks. He wrote The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and The Anthology of Balaji, two cult-classic books that have shaped how millions think about wealth, leverage, and the future. As CEO of Scribe Media, he’s reinventing publishing to give creators full ownership of their work. Eric also hosts the “Smart Friends” podcast, where he explores life’s biggest ideas with the world’s most interesting minds. His mission is simple but profound: help people build leverage, think independently, and live richer, freer lives.

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➡️ Talking Points

00:00 – Intro

01:27 – Eric’s Turning Point

03:06 – Discovering Writing

06:34 – Enter Scribe

15:00 – Writing for Impact & Sales

20:57 – Self-Publishing Playbook

24:34 – Sponsor Break

27:44 – Surprised by Success

31:55 – The Trap of Overplanning

39:37 – Reviving a Dying Business

41:26 – Rebuilding Trust

46:13 – Sponsor Break

48:24 – Should You Write a Book?

53:58 – No Finish Line in Creativity

1:01:00 – Turning Passion into Career

1:02:57 – Betting on the Future

1:19:42 – Eric’s Final Wisdom

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Transcript

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1:30.3	My first real writing project was Evergreen, and my goal was to find these truly important
1:36.9	evergreen resources. It gave me faith in sort of the internet as like a meritocratic place to create
1:41.5	content. And if I just keep doing things I will become better
1:44.1	as a result the whole world becomes a little brighter Eric Jorgensen the man who turned wisdom
1:48.5	into a startup author of the viral hit the almanac of naval ravicon Eric distills brilliance into
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