What Naval Ravikant thinks about market efficiency
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Naval Ravikant has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsFirst, the best application for a given use case still tends to win the entire category. When you have such a multiplicity of content, whether in videos or audio or music or applications, there’s no demand for average.