Naval Ravikant: “Networking is overrated… Do something great and your network will instantly emerge"
Naval offers the following advice to startup founders:
“Don’t spend your time doing meetings unless you really, really have to. I really think networking is overrated. There’s all these articles about how you’ve got to network more, and it makes me want to vomit.”
Instead he suggests:
“Go do something great and your network will instantly emerge. If you build a great product or if you get a good customer base, I guarantee you will get funded.”
Recruiting (customers and employees) and learning from really smart people are two exceptions. But don’t worry about building relationships with VCs or going to conferences early on. Just focus on your product, your team, and your users.
On Sunday I Had a guy renting one of my teslas on Turo that said he’d be late returning it because he just won an Oscar. I looked him up and he really did win an Oscar, that’s crazy 😭😳
A belter of a storm just hit Taipei while I was riding my bike. I stopped and scrambled to tie it up and then I turned around to realise a random stranger on the street had come to hold her umbrella over me, PEOPLE ARE NICE, that’s the tweet 🥰