Naval

About Naval

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Publisher

Naval

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Mar 2019

Latest episode

2 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 163 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   2 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Live in the Future

   Naval with three founders who are living in the future: Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Daniel Francis (Abel Police), and Farbood Nivi (A-LIST). 00:00 Guest Intros 02:35 Live in the Future 03:58 Will AI Outsmart us? 07:43 In the Anthropic Breadline 09:59 The Tech Genie Is Out 12:33 We Invested in COVID?! 14:25 Good Writing Is Novelty 18:50 Living Like It’s 2028 24:32 Truth dot ai 30:18 Does China have the Weights? 35:38 Everyone has AI Anxiety 39:32 Have Your Agent Talk to My Agent 42:01 What if Open Source takes the Lead? 44:03 The Sun is Setting on Google 48:00 Ride the AGI 50:46 Will There be Startups? 54:05 Defending Taiwan 1:00:05 The California Empire 1:01:26 If the U.S. Falls 1:03:11 Universal Basic Robot 1:06:01 Humans as AI Handlers

2. 

   1 Jun 2026

   Full Episode: The AI Industrial Revolution

   Naval Ravikant interviews Guillermo Rauch, Blake Scholl, and Max Hodak about the AI industrial revolution, exploring software factories, regulation, and the autonomous company.

3. 

   29 May 2026

   The Regulatory Frontier

   Host Naval Ravikant interviews founders Guillermo Rauch, Blake Scholl, and Max Hodak about navigating the regulatory frontier and fostering innovation.

Inside a recent episode

Live in the Future

Published 2 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Now, the AI is used for brainstorming. That part I like. I do use AIs to brainstorm. I use them like, give me synonyms for this, give me other ideas associated with this, pull in tangential information. I argue with it sometimes, especially because a lot of them are on guardrails. But I don't use it to actually create the output that I expect a human to sit there and read. That just seems to me like discontinuity, right? It's kind of unfair. It's a quality thing. I mean, I agree with you. Like out of box, the quality is bad. But you can have like 2028 level stuff. I mean, like I think the pattern that I'm trying to like, you know, tell people is that like, yes, like AI writing out of the box sucks right now. […]

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