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Helping the best companies in the #creatoreconomy scale.

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Naval Ravikant on the importance of hiring high-agency people

Naval defines agency as:

“People who just solve problems without even being asked to solve the problem—they identify the problem, they go solve it, they don’t even necessarily have to update you every step of the way, they’re not asking silly questions, and they’re just coming up with solutions.”

He believes this is important because “building a startup is an infinite set of problems that are being thrown at you.” And there comes a day where you can’t even look at every problem your company is facing—let alone solve every one of them.

He cites the Vinod Khosla aphorism:

"The team you build is the company you build, not the plan you make.”

And your ability to solve problems is based entirely on how many problem-solvers you have at your company. As Naval puts it:

“If you have somebody who takes 10% of your time and management to solve problems, you can only have 10 of those people working with you. But if somebody takes 5%, you can have 20 of those people.”

When building Airchat and AngelList, he thought of each team as a Navy Seal team:

“Everyone is just really good at what they do. They know their job. They do it. They don’t complain. They’re not egotistical about it. And if they have to constantly be corrected, led around by the nose, you have to clean up after them, or you question their judgement, it’s not going to work out.”

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Read enough, and you become a connoisseur. Then you naturally gravitate more towards theory, concepts, non-fiction”, says Naval Ravikant.

The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower.

25 books recommended by @naval 🧵

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Nothing says Christmas Day like @rickygervais talking about the end of the world for an hour. Enjoy! 🎄

Ricky Gervais: Armageddon is now streaming, only on Netflix.

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

I asked 170,000 people for the best book they read in 2023.

These 16 turned up the most (so they will make for great reading over the holidays):

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[@levelsio @levelsio]

Any more good documentary recommendations? YouTube or Netflix please 😍

[Naval @naval]

If your title matters to you, you don’t belong at a startup.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

In summary, there are 3 states that are ok:
1. Cashflow positive - always good obvi.
2. Cashflow negative but VCs are truly willing to finance that growth. (Be realistic about that.)
3. Low burn, long runway, fixing metrics to become 1 or 2.

Everything else a no man’s land.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in

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How Memmo, Willa & Mindvalley find super targeted creators at scale.

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The only place to find thousands of creators for your #creatoreconomy start up.

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The secret weapon of the top #creatoreconomy brands for growing their creator base.

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Our take on what exactly is a creator. #creatoreconomy

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