The Almanack of Naval Ravikant – Review
Ravikant’s journey has been remarkable to say the least, from a humble background of having spent his childhood in a lower middle class family run by a single parent, he has transcended himself to a phenomenal venture capitalist. The fact that he has invested in over 200 early stage companies including the likes of Uber, Twitter, Postmates to name a few and amongst them, 10 have grown out to be unicorn companies, this highlights the quality of his foresight combined with enormous risk taking appetite. The Almanack of Ravikant focusses on his tenets that laid the foundation for his phenomenal success, I have highlighted the ones that resonated with me. *Love for reading books – This must be driven to a point wherein it becomes an obsession. Many super successful entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have known to spend 2 to 3 hours everyday on reading books. The number of books read within a year or month shouldn’t be a vanity metric but how much we derive value out of th...