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How to Get Rich: Every Episode

Naval

Naval Ravikant

Business, Technology

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 216 minutes

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Summary

This giant episode collects every interview I've done on "How to Get Rich." It includes 10 minutes of unreleased material—at the end—on "Finding Time to Invest in Yourself."

Transcript: http://nav.al/rich

Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status 1:30

Make Abundance for the World 6:40

Free Markets Are Intrinsic to Humans 10:21

Making Money Isn't About Luck 14:19

Make Luck Your Destiny 19:25

You Won't Get Rich Renting Out Your Time 24:00

Live Below Your Means for Freedom 28:40

Give Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get 31:01

The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities 33:44

Play Long-term Games With Long-term People 38:23

Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity 44:24

Partner With Rational Optimists 49:09

Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge 54:34

Specific Knowledge Is Highly Creative or Technical 1:00:53

Learn to Sell, Learn to Build 1:06:24

Read What You Love Until You Love to Read 1:10:59

The Foundations Are Math and Logic 1:12:00

There's No Actual Skill Called "Business" 1:16:48

Embrace Accountability to Get Leverage 1:20:06

Take Accountability to Earn Equity 1:25:37

Labor and Capital Are Old Leverage 1:30:06

Product and Media are New Leverage 1:35:01

Product Leverage is Egalitarian 1:39:42

Pick a Business Model With Leverage 1:44:56

Example: From Laborer to Entrepreneur 1:50:51

Judgment Is the Decisive Skill 2:01:15

Set an Aspirational Hourly Rate 2:07:41

Work As Hard As You Can 2:11:26

Be Too Busy to "Do Coffee" 2:16:34

Keep Redefining What You Do 2:20:38

Escape Competition Through Authenticity 2:22:41

Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes 2:28:17

Eventually You Will Get What You Deserve 2:30:53

Reject Most Advice 2:35:00

A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love 2:37:55

There Are No Get Rich Quick Schemes 2:42:02

Productize Yourself 2:46:42

Accountability Means Letting People Criticize You 2:48:55

We Should Eventually Be Working for Ourselves 2:55:33

Being Ethical Is Long-Term Greedy 2:56:58

Envy Can Be Useful, or It Can Eat You Alive 3:00:23

Principal-Agent Problem: Act Like an Owner 3:03:51

Kelly Criterion: Avoid Ruin 3:10:33

Schelling Point: Cooperating Without Communicating 3:12:03

Turn Short-Term Games Into Long-Term Games 3:13:55

Compounding Relationships Make Life Easier 3:16:36

Price Discrimination: Charge Some People More 3:19:04

Consumer Surplus: Getting More Than You Paid For 3:20:14

Net Present Value: What Future Income Is Worth Today 3:21:03

Externalities: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Products 3:22:05

Bonus Material: Finding Time to Invest in Yourself 3:23:47

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Nivea, you're listening to the Nevol podcast.

0:03.6

This is one giant mega-sode that collects every episode we've done on getting rich.

0:09.4

All of it based on his tweet storm of how to get rich without getting lucky.

0:14.3

I've collected them all here because we're going to switch topics to the new topic of happiness

0:19.6

on the next episode. We've published one of these giant mega-sodes before, but this one's even bigger.

0:25.4

It's about three and a half hours long.

0:28.3

It covers all the tweets from the how to get rich tweet storm,

0:31.7

plus all the Q&A that we did after that, plus 10 minutes of bonus material at the very end

0:38.2

that we've never released. The overall sound quality of this mega-sode improves a lot after

0:44.5

the first hour. You can find a link to a clean transcript in the show notes or if you go to the

0:49.6

website nav.al. There's no.com at the end. I hope you enjoy.

0:55.7

You probably know nava from his Twitter account and we're going to be talking about his epic tweet storm

1:02.7

on how to get rich without getting lucky. We're going to go through most of the tweets in detail,

1:08.2

give nava a chance to expand on them and just generally riff on the topic. He'll probably throw

1:13.1

in some ideas that he hasn't even published before. He's also the co-founder of Angel List and

1:18.6

opinions. He's a prolific tech investor in companies like Twitter, Uber, and many more.

1:24.9

The co-founder of Angel List with nava. I also co-authored the venture hacks blog with him back

1:30.3

in the day. We had to get rich tweet storm. Definitely hit a nerve. A lot of people say it was

1:35.6

helpful, reach cross-eils and people outside of tech industry, people in all walks of life.

1:40.7

People do want to know how to solve their money problems. Everyone vaguely knows that they want

1:46.5

to be wealthy, but they don't have a good set of principles to do it by. What's the difference

1:52.0

between wealth, money, and status? Well, it's the thing that you really want. Well,

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