AngelList founder, investor, philosopher
Everything Naval personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"I'll throw Codex Claude and Gemini at the same problem over and over and just waste tokens to save time. And I think no matter how expensive these models might seem, they're still way cheaper than a human. So I would say just waste tokens, save time."
▶ 4:51"People don't get really excited about Gemini but they put out these models that are like super smart at the right performance cost combination and for a lot of tasks other than coding actually interestingly enough they're the best models"
"Gemini is very good at search because it has the Google crawl underneath. It's a frustrating product. It's constantly timing out on the app and losing the connection and forgetting the plot, but it's very fast and it's got a great search index."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"And then Grok is the one I can count on to tell me the truth. It's like the least neutered, least nerfed. It's got access to X, so it's very good at news. And it's very good at technical problems."
▶ 17:16"I used to go to Grok for that, but even Grok is a little neutered now."
Personal use in 1 episode
"Chat GPT is still the OG. It's sort of very good all around... it works with your agents, Chat GPT, and Claude."
▶ 16:41Personal use in 1 episode
"Around December of 2025, the coding agents in AI hit an inflection point with the release of Claude Opus 4.5... this is an agent that stays on track, can build apps, solve thorny problems, and really feels like having a junior programmer at your disposal who's fast, essentially free, and ready to please."
▶ 0:34Personal use in 1 episode
"I've also used Codex for some of the thornier bug solving and deep problems... I've been completely missing on X because I'm buried in Claude and Codex."
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"I've got Daniel from Abel Police. They started off by turning body cam footage into police reports, but now they have a whole set of tools for compliant AI chat, translation."
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"I'm trying to get all my smart friends to go work at Anthropic so I'll have lots of friends there who will get me into the Anthropic level two bread line."
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"Right now Claude and Codex are slightly ahead of GLM and maybe a lot ahead of GLM. But if something like GLM were ever to surpass them, it's not clear they'd get the lead back."
"Claude or ChatGPT is basically as good as you are in a domain"
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"On my right is Garry Tan from Y Combinator. They say it's the most reliable way to become a billionaire is to join the Y Combinator program."
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"They're developing their Huawei chips. They're working on their 7nm, 5 nanometer processes."
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"There are some genuine algorithmic breakthroughs like the DeepSeek paper — DeepSeek R1."
"You'll just use DeepSeek for 97% of things because it's so cheap and if you need more intelligence you'll just run it over and over again"
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"Hardware is commoditized, but it's owned by China for the most part. There are some few exceptions like SpaceX in the US."
"You saw how uh was it SpaceX they got sued first for for not having enough I forget what it was migrants or refugees or whatever but they're not allowed to hire them by government regulation on the other side because they're not citizens"
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"I've got Farbood from A-List, the health super app."
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"Aircraft carriers are dead in land-based missiles from China. Drones — DJI is the largest defense contractor in the world."
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"There's an ASML machine supposedly somewhere in China now. There are only 184 of them — that's the lithography machine."
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"Grok publishes models, but I think they're a model or two behind"
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"Max Hodak from science. He's building a biohybrid brain interface that grows living neurons on silicon to restore sensory functions like sight"
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"Blake Shawl, he's building supersonic aircraft in his own factory and jet engines as well. Blake's company, Boom Supersonic."
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"And then the money part, you insert crypto tokens, you know, put in Bitcoin, put in whatever, and the model goes and just pays for whatever it needs."
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"Everything from GitHub to maybe some backend you're doing Vercel or Firebase or Railway or whatever."
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"So you may end up with more things like Minecraft which Notch famously coded by himself where there was one person's vision and it may have looked weird because like what is this blocky graphics? It's like a huge step backwards but he didn't have to compromise."
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"if you look at all the code out there that they were trained on sitting on GitHub or elsewhere or Stack Overflow, most of it was Unix."
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"Everything from GitHub to maybe some backend you're doing Vercel or Firebase or Railway or whatever."
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"Everything from GitHub to maybe some backend you're doing Vercel or Firebase or Railway or whatever."
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"You can throw Swift Playgrounds and Scratch Junior and all of that at them and hope that they pick up coding."
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