Naval

Full episode with 20 minutes of new material at the end.

Software factories, vertical integration, the regulatory frontier, and the autonomous company.

Part 1: Waste Tokens, Save Time

00:00 Three Frontier Founders

01:27 AI Software Factories

04:15 Waste Tokens, Save Time

05:47 Models Instructing Humans

09:29 Is Pure Software Dead?

12:03 You Don't Get Stuck Anymore

Part 2: Vibe Coding Hardware

14:39 Vibe Coding a Turbine Blade

18:07 Open Source Compounds China's Advantage

20:15 You Always Want the Smartest Model

22:44 Software Still Needs Hands

24:43 Humans Are Becoming Verifiers

Part 3: The Regulatory Frontier

27:53 The Regulatory Red Queen Race

32:32 Why There's No Innovation in Healthcare

36:49 We Need a True 50-State Experiment

40:31 China's FDA Is Beating Ours

43:37 Healthcare Is a Communist Society Inside Capitalism

45:57 Sid's Story: N-of-1 Medicine

Part 4: The Autonomous Company

47:49 Autonomous Infrastructure

51:25 Your Job Is to Train the Agent

54:54 The Next Lord of the Rings

59:08 What's Your Definition of Art?

1:05:00 Can AI Have New Ideas?

1:07:03 A Very Large Number of Small Teams

With Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Blake Scholl (Boom Supersonic), and Max Hodak (Science).

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00:00 Be Credible

03:18 "Yes, And"

04:31 Selfish Honesty

05:37 Charisma Is Confidence + Love

07:56 Don't Manage, Lead

11:16 Hunt Together

14:51 Feed Your (Good) Obsessions

18:57 Sell the Truth

21:07 Good Deal or No Deal

23:39 The Age of Nonlinear Returns

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00:00 The Fully Interconnected Startup

04:14 You Don't Need the Explicit Intranet Anymore

06:55 May You Live in Interesting Times

10:40 Drones Democratize Violence

12:43 Biothreats Could Also Get Democratized

15:09 AI Interfaces Unlock Hardware

17:35 Optimism Requires Creativity

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USVC is a product of AngelList, where we are founders and hold equity.

A Return to Coding 00:15

The Personal App Store 03:08

Vibe Coding Is a Video Game with Real-World Rewards 06:12

Pure Software Is Uninvestable 10:23

A Place for Each Model 14:09

AI Is Eager to Please 17:44

Why Math and Coding? 21:58

The Beginning of the End of Apple's Dominance 24:04

Coding Agents As Customer Service Reps 27:43

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We founded AngelList and have equity in the company.

If you want to learn, do 0:00

Vibe coding is the new product management 2:13

Training models is the new coding 6:49

Is traditional software engineering dead? 10:13

There is no demand for average 13:07

The hottest new programming language is English 14:12

AI is adapting to us faster than we are adapting to it 18:36

No entrepreneur is worried about AI taking their job 22:56

The goal is not to have a job 26:46

AIs are not alive 29:49

AI fails the only true test of intelligence 32:55

Early adopters of AI have an enormous edge 36:49

AI meets you exactly where you are 39:37

Always leverage the best intelligence 43:02

If you can't define it, you can't program it 44:37

The solution to AI anxiety is action 49:37

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The Best Only Want to Work With the Best 0:00

You'll Never Be Able to Hire Anybody Better Than You 3:49

Break Every Rule to Get the Best People 6:45

It Just Takes a Small Group of People to Create Something Great 10:19

Find Undiscovered Talent Before Everyone Else 14:56

Great People Have Taste in Other People 19:04

Every Great Engineer Is Also an Artist 21:24

Early Teams Look Like Cults 25:34

You Can't Make a Product that is Simple Enough 27:59

The Founder's Personality Is the Company 30:37

Good Teams Throw Away Far More Product Than They Keep 34:45

All New Information Starts as Misinformation 38:41

Geniuses Only 40:47

Practice Your Craft At the Edge of Your Capability 44:24

Curate People 49:14

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Inspiration All the Way Down 0:00

Life is Lived in the Arena 2:40

If You Want to Learn, Do 4:51

In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect 6:15

When You Truly Work for Yourself 7:30

Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action 10:12

You Have to Enjoy It a Lot 12:06

Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did 14:45

Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency 16:23

It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature 21:03

The Best Authors Respect the Reader's Time 25:17

Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured 28:18

Good Products Are Hard to Vary 32:01

Find the Simplest Thing That Works 35:27

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Connecting the Four Theories into a Unified Whole 0:34

Emergence Is Fundamental 3:18

Constructor Theory Could Transform Multiple Fields 8:30

Innovation Often Emerges Unexpectedly 22:46

Knowledge Evolves Independently Across Universes 29:31

Anti-Rational Memes Hinder Human Progress 31:10

The West Versus the Rest 37:32

Error-correcting Institutions 47:46

The Bucket Theory of the Mind 51:59

Wokeism and the West 1:07:12

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Proving something about AGI is inherently impossible 0:00

Creativity is not just mixing things together 3:05

The superiority of explanatory knowledge 7:48

Knowledge laden information is more resilient than any physical object 12:36

The problems of cloning people 15:05

Objections to Taking Children Seriously 19:23

"Do what you like" is bad advice 38:17

Creativity versus nature 41:57

Deutsch's "fanciful" conjectures 47:52

We must give up on the idea of an ultimate explanation 53:06

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The universality of computation and explanation 0:00

The growth of knowledge begins with problems 4:56

Problems are clashes between ideas 9:57

Evolution is not the survival of the fittest 14:50

Bad philosophy in quantum theory 26:46

Free will is intimately connected with knowledge-creation 33:41

Wealth is not a number, it is a set of transformations 49:03

The principle of optimism 53:27

Constructor Theory 57:21

How to make a better world 1:10:05

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Good Science Fiction is Hard to Vary 2:08

ChatGPT is Not a Step Towards AGI 5:36

Creativity is Fundamentally Impossible to Define 13:35

The Binary of Personhood and Non-Personhood 23:41

David Deutsch's Life Philosophy 32:06

The Clash of Civilizations 44:03

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Popper's Impact 0:00

Creative Guesses 2:18

Experiments, Demonstrations, and Measurements 4:25

Taking Theories Seriously 10:25

New Paradigms 15:58

Foundations of Science 23:30

The Enlightenment 25:39

Misinformation 29:45

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Introduction 0:00

The Human Race 2:11

Knowledge Creation 12:34

AGI 15:50

Taking Children Seriously 23:30

Good Explanations 27:49

Quantum Computers 36:35

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The elder statesman of smart contract blockchains 0:00

The Ethereum community 1:22

The DAO hack 2:34

Vitalik's finest and worst moments in protocol politics 5:18

Becoming a Twitter memelord 7:45

Vitalik's influence on Eth today 8:59

It's getting harder to do big things in Eth 10:38

Goals outside Ethereum 12:17

Crypto needs the good-natured 15:00

Russia 18:06

Vitalik's lifestyle 19:51

Closing thoughts 22:06

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Introduction 0:00

Haseeb's background 0:22

Vitalik's background 2:43

A blockchain you can build any app on top of 7:02

Eth trades efficiency for transparency 10:18

Like plain text, Eth is simple and efficient 12:41

Only high-value transactions can afford the blockchain 13:08

Doing away with 'trusted' third parties 14:09

Trading performance for security 14:43

'Impregnable castles made of math' 16:23

Ethereum's limitations are latency and privacy 16:56

There are ways to get back your privacy 19:32

Can Eth provide a high level of decentralization and a high level of scaling at the same time? 20:39

Sharding leads to more centralization 21:49

Verifiability at the expense of scaling 24:00

How much decentralization is the right amount? 25:11

What happens when subsidies to join nodes disappear? 27:07

Stateless clients make it possible to verify the chain with very little on your hard drive 28:18

Staking culture is difficult to cultivate 28:52

New blockchain players tend to go for minimum viable decentralization 29:54

People don't value privacy until somebody goes to jail over it 30:32

Eth is 'simple at the base' 31:12

Social recovery wallets make it easier to be your own bank 31:44

Block space is getting expensive 32:41

There's not a lot of innovation on Bitcoin, by design 33:35

Blockchain's 'free-rider effect' 34:57

Innovation is slowest at Layer 1 35:34

Layer 2 moves faster because it's permissionless 36:59

What if we froze Layer 1 today? 37:25

Data for computation trade-off 38:57

Benchmarking blockchains apples-to-apples 40:02

Enshrining decentralization 41:43

Tensions between scaling and preserving value 42:27

There will be multiple stores of value 43:54

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Build your character in a way so luck becomes deterministic.

• Build your character so luck becomes your destiny 0:00

• Build your character so opportunity finds you 1:12

• You have to be a little eccentric to be out on the frontier by yourself 2:39

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Making money isn't about luck. It's about becoming the kind of person who makes money.

• Making money isn't about luck 0:00

• Blind luck 0:46

• Luck from hustling 0:55

• Luck from preparation 1:35

• Luck from your unique character 1:51

• In 1,000 parallel universes, you want to be wealthy in 999 of them 2:54

• Wealth stacks up one chip at a time, not all at once 4:11

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We're the only animals who cooperate across genetic boundaries, because we can track credits and debits in voluntary exchanges.

• Free markets are intrinsic to the human species 0:00

• Too many takers and not enough makers will plunge a society into ruin 1:48

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Wealth isn't about taking something from somebody else—it's about creating abundance for the world.

• Ethical wealth creation makes abundance for the world 0:00

• Everyone can be wealthy 1:28

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The difference between wealth, money and status.

• Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep 0:56

• Money is how we transfer wealth 2:28

• Status is your rank in the social hierarchy 3:08

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This is the first interview between Naval and Nivi on How to Get Rich. These interviews are based on Naval's tweetstorm at https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936.

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Excerpted from the Spearhead podcast: http://spearhead.co

Discovering the truth can change you where self-improvement fails.

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Even smart people go along with society's lies.

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