Naval

I block miserable people.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The most important room you will ever hear: @naval, @friedberg and I discuss the underappreciated risk of a nuclear use in Ukraine.

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[Naval @naval]

Startups are the Olympics of business.

Consumer-facing apps are the 100 meter dash.

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(co-credit to @BrianNorgard).

[Naval @naval]

Big companies and repeat entrepreneurs struggle to go from zero to one because they refuse to restart at zero.

[Naval @naval]

It’s not Missionary vs Mercenary.

It’s Artist vs Everything else.

[Naval @naval]

When we see the truth in a person, we call it authenticity.

[Naval @naval]

Three things new angels don’t understand:

• The importance of moats (brand is not a moat).

• Many bad businesses ramp revenue quickly.

• How to read signals (actions, not words).

Starting out - if you don’t know enough to run it, you don’t know enough to invest in it.

[Naval @naval]

You can admire Elon Musk and Steve Jobs while knowing that you don’t need to be like them at all.

[Naval @naval]

Creative teams should be colocated. The rest of the company can be distributed.

[Naval @naval]

“For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig.

But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.”

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[Naval @naval]

via @SvenSchnieders

[Naval @naval]

Social scientists conjure opinionated models, journalists anoint them experts, politicians carry out their orders.

The middle managers of society, exercising power without merit.

True expertise is a rare product of obsession and objectivity.

Nature has no lanes.

[Naval @naval]

This app is a menace.

Any competent coder knows that it’s trivially easy to insert back doors, hoover up data, and put a thumb on the scale.

[Naval @naval]

Feels like civilization, the organism, is lately more on edge.

[Naval @naval]

As Elon shows, the solution to collectivism is exceptionalism.

[Naval @naval]

When the reader is ready, the book appears.

[Naval @naval]

Most of the culture wars are a struggle between what’s best for the children and what’s best for the childless.

[Naval @naval]

Charging for the blue check moves it from a status symbol to a utilitarian one.

It elicits shrieks because it’s more about leveling the playing field than making money.

[Naval @naval]

People trying to kill Twitter are about to discover how powerful network effects can be.

[Naval @naval]

Democratizing verification levels the playing field, exposes bots, and frees the bird from advertisers.

However, signal-boosting replies from verified accounts is a pay-to-play and penalizes the small but insightful accounts that make Twitter worthwhile.