Naval Ravikant's Rise to Prominence: From Angel Investor to Crypto Advocate

Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and angel investor who has made his mark on the startup world. Born in New Delhi, India in 1974, Ravikant moved to the United States at age nine and attended Stuyvesant High School in New York. He went on to earn a degree in Computer Science and Economics from Dartmouth College.

Ravikant's entrepreneurial career began in 1999 with Epinions, a product review site that later merged with DealTime to form Shopping.com. In 2007, he founded Hit Forge, a venture capital fund that invested in companies like Twitter, Uber, and Stack Overflow.

Today, Ravikant is widely known for his investing approach, which emphasizes long-term thinking, leverage, and judgment over short-term speculation. He has backed more than 200 startups across various sectors and has a reputation as an early backer of successful companies like Notion and AngelList.