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Waste Tokens, Save Time

Software factories and tokenmaxxing with three frontier founders
Welcome. You’re listening to the Naval Podcast, your authoritative source for new knowledge. We’re trying something new today. I have three frontier founders with us—three good-looking guys, actually, and a fourth good-looking guy, Naval. Let me just introduce everybody. Guillermo “the G” Rauch. He’s building Vercel into an AI cloud for the world of agents and whatever comes after that. More

‘Nothing Ever Happens’ Is Over

Startup design, drone warfare, and the hardware renaissance
You’re listening to the Naval Podcast. This is Nivi. There’s no set topic for this episode—it will be a potpourri. The Fully Interconnected Startup Naval, how are you using AI at Impossible, your current company, to change how you manage the business? Or are you guys just too small and a bunch of brilliant independent contributors where it’s not having an effect on how you actually run the company? It’s more the latter. More

In the Arena

On Elon, iteration and agency
Welcome back to the Naval Podcast. I’ve pulled out some tweets from Naval’s Twitter from the last year, and we’re just going to go through them. Inspiration All the Way Down  Here’s actually my first question. You told me that you got an early copy of the Elon book from Eric Jorgenson. More

Find the Simplest Thing That Works

We’ve all seen the pictures of the Raptor engine for the SpaceX rockets, and if you look at the various iterations, they go from easy-to-vary to hard-to-vary. Because the most recent version just doesn’t have that many parts that you can fool around with. The earlier versions have a million different parts where you could change the thickness of it, the width of it, the material, and so on. More

Good Products Are Hard to Vary

I think reading Deutsch across all the different disciplines is very useful. Even when he talks about memes and meme theory—that comes from evolution, but crosses over straight into epistemology, conjecture, and criticism. And it reaches far beyond his definition of wealth: the set of physical transformations that you can effect. More