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Naval@naval·
How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):
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Russell
Russell@russell_m·
@naval And the guy running for Governor in California @SteveHiltonx uncovered it all before anyone else did. He exposed the Eco Health Alliance funding of GoF research at Wuhan labs, but the information never went mainstream until years later.
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Naval@naval·
AIs replace UIs and APIs.
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Naval@naval·
Journalists aren't neutral - they're the cavalry in the culture wars.
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“What did you build this week?” is the new “what did you get done this week?”
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“Democratic Socialists” are just the “New Luddites” party.
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Naval@naval·
@TrueBenGammon @joinladder I’m actually a ladder subscriber :-) But sometimes I want something a lot simpler, so I vibe coded the app on the side.
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BG@TrueBenGammon·
@naval @naval I’ll gift you a free lifetime @joinladder membership so you can spend more time vibe‑coding the rest of your personal app store... But we’re just honored Ladder made the cut as inspo 🤝
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Naval@naval·
New podcast on vibe coding - A Return to Code. A Return to Coding 00:20 The Personal App Store 03:17 Vibe Coding Is a Video Game with Real-World Rewards 06:22 Pure Software Is Uninvestable 10:33 A Place for Each Model 14:22 AI Is Eager to Please 17:57 Why Math and Coding? 22:10 The Beginning of the End of Apple’s Dominance 24:17 Coding Agents As Customer Service Reps 27:55
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Brivael Le Pogam
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael·
Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.
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Amin Palizban
Amin Palizban@AminPali·
@naval Is this AI generated? Voice sounds robotic. But agree, vibe coding is fun. I hope compute gets faster though as lots if time is wasted waiting
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Naval@naval·
@Th3RealSocrates That's an old Marc Andreessen line, and I'm sure he'd give you a more nuanced take now. Anyway, he would tell you that AI is just software (the way he's using the term). These are words, not math formulas.
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Socrates@Th3RealSocrates·
@naval wait "Pure Software Is Uninvestable" — did he walk back the old "software eats everything" bit or just mean AI infra?
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Naval@naval·
@crepesupreme Actually listen to the podcast instead of reacting.
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Crepe Supreme@crepesupreme·
@naval Palantir trades north of 80x sales with zero hardware. The highest-multiple corner of the public market right now is pure software with a real data moat. That chapter title might be a 2014 take aging into 2026.
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Blake Byers
Blake Byers@byersblake·
Unfortunately, those in power in Sacramento seem blind to second order effects. We are now in a situation where this wealth tax is very likely to pass. This means founders who control their companies through super voting shares (instead of ceding control to VCs) need to start preparing to leave the state. I wish we could entice more founders to come and build here instead of forcing people away. The top 1% of earners pay 40% of income tax (CA actually has the most progressive income/cap gains tax system in the world). If we could double that 1% group (by building people up and recruiting people here), we’d increase our taxes by 40%! Instead, we are pushing away those top 1% of earners and risking dropping our tax revenue by 40%. And for founders with super voting, they effectively are forced to leave. Basically we need to hope that Gavin pulls off a last minute save and negotiates with the sponsoring union to pull the Wealth Tax proposition.
Blake Byers@byersblake

This is the best summary of the personal impact of the California Wealth Tax I've seen. Founders, if you have super voting shares, your tax liability may be substantially higher than your net worth. Private company shareholders, especially those in heavy industries, face a similar risk. Note this tax can apply to founders and shareholders with far less than $1B in net worth as well. As a lifetime Californian, this pains me to say, but founders of any unicorn company or any startup that could become a unicorn this year, really need to start planning a potential move or many will face 30-50%+ wealth taxes and potential bankruptcy. I'm still hopeful that voters will see the serious negative impact on California's tax revenue, services and jobs and will vote this proposition down... but it's so egregiously bad that you need a backup plan. taxfoundation.org/research/all/s…

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Alex Bass (efficient.app)
Alex Bass (efficient.app)@alexbass·
Fundrise VCX is exactly why USVC needs to exist. Retail wants access to OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, xAI, etc. That demand is not going away. VCX turned that demand into a liquid public wrapper that still trades around 4-5x NAV. At today’s ~$90 price vs. recent NAV references around ~$19, buyers may be paying roughly $4-5 for every $1 of actual private tech exposure. Access at the wrong price is not access. It’s just scarcity monetized. Yes, venture has fees. It always has. You pay for access, selection, and portfolio construction. But paying venture fees is very different from paying 4-5x NAV for the wrapper before the venture return even happens. The companies inside VCX can be great and retail can still get wrecked if the premium collapses. USVC is the cleaner answer: diversified private tech exposure, SEC-registered, available to unaccredited investors, and bought around NAV instead of through a hyped public wrapper trading miles above its assets. The real test for me is simple: my mom wants to invest in startups/private tech. I would rather she do USVC 100x over VCX, because at least with USVC I can understand the structure, explain the tradeoffs, and know she is not just paying a massive public-market hype premium for the wrapper. In venture, access matters. But the wrapper can still ruin the investment. And right now, some products are monetizing retail demand for private AI/startup exposure more than they are solving it. USVC is at least aimed at the right problem.
Naval@naval

Introducing USVC - a single basket of high-growth venture capital, for everyone. No accreditation required, SEC-registered, and a very low $500 minimum. Includes OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Sierra, Crusoe, Legora, and Vercel. As USVC adds more companies, investors will own a piece of that too. Liquidity typically comes when companies exit, but we’re aiming to let investors redeem up to 5% of the fund every quarter. This isn’t guaranteed, but if we can make it work, you won’t be locked up like in a traditional venture fund. It runs on AngelList, which already supports $125 billion of investor capital. And I’ve joined USVC as the Chairman of its Investment Committee. — Go back to the 1500s, you set sail for the new world to find tons of gold - that was adventure capital. Early-stage technology is the modern version. It says we are going to create something new, and it’s risky. It’s daring. But ordinary people can’t invest until it’s old, until it’s no longer interesting, until everybody has access to it. By the time a stock IPOs, most of the alpha is gone. The adventure is gone. Public market investors are literally last in line. This problem has become farcical in the last decade. Startups are reaching trillion dollar valuations in the private markets while ordinary investors have their noses up to the glass, wondering when they’ll be let in. Investing in private markets isn’t easy. You need feet on the ground. You need judgment built over years. Most people don’t have the patience to wait ten or twenty years for an investment to come to fruition. But there is no more productive, harder-working way to deploy a dollar than in true venture capital. USVC enables you to invest in venture capital in a broad, accessible, professionally-managed way, through a single basket of innovation, focused on high-growth startups, at all stages. It is how you bet on the future of tech: the smartest young people in the world, working insane hours, leveraged to the max, with code, hardware, capital, media, and community. Your dollar doesn’t work harder anywhere. There is an old line - in the future, either you are telling a computer what to do, or a computer is telling you what to do. You don’t want to be on the wrong side of that transaction. USVC lets you buy the future, but you buy it now. Then you wait, and if you are right, you get paid. Get access here: usvc.com

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mayank
mayank@mayanktondak·
@naval Is there a way Indian citizen can apply?
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Naval@naval·
@HodoBabba Sorry, didn’t come off that way. I’ll delete.
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Hodo Baba
Hodo Baba@HodoBabba·
@naval I only had best intentions in mind.
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JJ
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This is going to change VC forever … and democratize it for the people. Well done @Naval. 👌🏼
Naval@naval

Introducing USVC - a single basket of high-growth venture capital, for everyone. No accreditation required, SEC-registered, and a very low $500 minimum. Includes OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Sierra, Crusoe, Legora, and Vercel. As USVC adds more companies, investors will own a piece of that too. Liquidity typically comes when companies exit, but we’re aiming to let investors redeem up to 5% of the fund every quarter. This isn’t guaranteed, but if we can make it work, you won’t be locked up like in a traditional venture fund. It runs on AngelList, which already supports $125 billion of investor capital. And I’ve joined USVC as the Chairman of its Investment Committee. — Go back to the 1500s, you set sail for the new world to find tons of gold - that was adventure capital. Early-stage technology is the modern version. It says we are going to create something new, and it’s risky. It’s daring. But ordinary people can’t invest until it’s old, until it’s no longer interesting, until everybody has access to it. By the time a stock IPOs, most of the alpha is gone. The adventure is gone. Public market investors are literally last in line. This problem has become farcical in the last decade. Startups are reaching trillion dollar valuations in the private markets while ordinary investors have their noses up to the glass, wondering when they’ll be let in. Investing in private markets isn’t easy. You need feet on the ground. You need judgment built over years. Most people don’t have the patience to wait ten or twenty years for an investment to come to fruition. But there is no more productive, harder-working way to deploy a dollar than in true venture capital. USVC enables you to invest in venture capital in a broad, accessible, professionally-managed way, through a single basket of innovation, focused on high-growth startups, at all stages. It is how you bet on the future of tech: the smartest young people in the world, working insane hours, leveraged to the max, with code, hardware, capital, media, and community. Your dollar doesn’t work harder anywhere. There is an old line - in the future, either you are telling a computer what to do, or a computer is telling you what to do. You don’t want to be on the wrong side of that transaction. USVC lets you buy the future, but you buy it now. Then you wait, and if you are right, you get paid. Get access here: usvc.com

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