नवल रविकांत Naval Ravikant

Life and career

  1. 1974 · Born in New Delhi. Born on 5 November 1974 in New Delhi. (Wikipedia)
  2. Age nine · To Queens, New York. He moved to New York at nine with his mother and older brother Kamal. His mother worked long hours for little pay and the family moved often. He saw little of his father after the age of four. (Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Nov–Dec 2014 · Wikipedia)
  3. 1991 to 1995 · Stuyvesant and Dartmouth. He got into Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan and graduated in 1991. At Dartmouth he took degrees in computer science and economics and graduated in 1995. (Wikipedia · Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Nov–Dec 2014)
  4. After 1995 · A law firm, BCG, then the Valley. He interned at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, spent a short time at Boston Consulting Group and then moved to Silicon Valley. (Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Nov–Dec 2014 · Wikipedia)
  5. 1999 · Epinions. He co-founded the consumer review site Epinions. It raised $45 million from investors including Benchmark Capital and August Capital. (Wikipedia · The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: The Story of AngelList)
  6. 2003 to 2005 · Shopping.com and the lawsuit. Epinions merged with DealTime in 2003 to form Shopping.com, which went public in October 2004. eBay bought it for $634 million in 2005. He and other co-founders had received nothing from the IPO. In January 2005 they sued Benchmark, August Capital and co-founder Nirav Tolia. The case settled in December 2005 for an undisclosed sum. (Wikipedia · Fast Company, 24 Mar 2014 · Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Nov–Dec 2014)
  7. 2006 · Vast. He founded Vast, a vertical search engine for classified listings that raised funding despite the controversy around him. (Techdirt, 14 Mar 2006 · CB Insights: Vast.com people)
  8. 2007 · Venture Hacks and The Hit Forge. With Babak Nivi he launched the Venture Hacks blog on 2 April 2007 to explain term sheets and venture deals to founders. Around the same time he started The Hit Forge, a $20 million early-stage fund whose bets included Uber and Stack Overflow. He was also a small first-round investor in Twitter. (The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: The Story of AngelList · Wikipedia · The Next Web, 22 Feb 2011)
  9. 2010 · AngelList. A Venture Hacks post on 20 February 2010 announced AngelList, which began as an email list of startups for selected angels. Uber raised a $1.3 million seed round in October 2010 after connecting through the site. (The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: The Story of AngelList · Fast Company, 24 Mar 2014)
  10. 2012 to 2013 · The JOBS Act and syndicates. He lobbied in Washington for the 2012 JOBS Act so that AngelList’s model could work without broker-dealer rules. In 2013 AngelList launched syndicates, which let a lead angel pool money from followers. (Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Nov–Dec 2014 · Fast Company, 24 Mar 2014)
  11. 2014 to 2017 · MetaStable and Spearhead. He co-founded MetaStable Capital, a crypto-only hedge fund, in September 2014. Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia were among its backers. In 2017 he and Jeff Fagnan created Spearhead, which gives founders money to invest as angels. (Fortune, 26 Jul 2017 · TechCrunch, 15 Oct 2019)
  12. 2018 to 2020 · How to Get Rich and the Almanack. His tweetstorm How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) went out on 31 May 2018. He and Nivi turned it into a podcast series in 2019. In 2020 Eric Jorgenson collected his words into The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. (The original tweetstorm on X, 31 May 2018 · Venture Hacks, 1 May 2019 · Wikipedia)
  13. 2023 to 2024 · Airchat. He co-founded Airchat, a voice-first social app, with former Tinder executive Brian Norgard. A first version came out in May 2023. A rebuilt app relaunched on 12 April 2024 and was downloaded more than 30,000 times in five days. By July 2024 it had pivoted towards topic channels. (TechCrunch, 13 Apr 2024 · Techmeme, citing Bloomberg, 16 Apr 2024 · TechCrunch, 9 Jul 2024)
  14. 2025 to 2026 · A new company and a fund for everyone. In August 2025 he revealed The Impossible Computer Company, a small in-person team in San Francisco. In April 2026 AngelList launched USVC, a regulated venture fund open to US investors from $500, with him chairing its investment committee. Forbes named him to its Self-Made 250 that year. (Analytics India Magazine, 9 Aug 2025 · Decrypt, 22 Apr 2026 · Wikipedia)

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