Lakhasly

Dear

It feels strange for me to write these words, as I many ago to never write forewords. rm makingarare in this case for three reasons.First, a free version of this b)Ok is being to the world in a dVital/KindIe/eBook format with no strings attached.Second, IVe known Naval for more thana decade and have longwantai to compile this b)0k.Third, the like- lihocd of Child being named "Tim" (l'II settle for "Timb),' if heprefers). Naval is one ofthe anartestpeople IVe ever met, and he's also one ofthemost courageous.Not in the "run into the fire with- out thinking twice' sense, but in the "think twice and then tell everyone they're focusing on the wrong fire- sense.He israrely part Ofany and the uniqu eness of his life, lifestyle, family dynamics, and startup is areflection of con- scious choices he's made to do things differently.

Dear

It feels strange for me to write these words, as I
many ago to never write forewords.

rm makingarare in this case for three reasons.First,
a free version of this b)Ok is being to the world in a
dVital/KindIe/eBook format with no strings attached.Second,
IVe known Naval for more thana decade and have longwantai
to compile this b)0k.Third, the like-
lihocd of Child being named "Tim" (l'II settle for
"Timb),' if heprefers).

Naval is one ofthe anartestpeople IVe ever met, and he's also
one ofthemost courageous.Not in the "run into the fire with-
out thinking twice' sense, but in the "think twice and then tell
everyone they're focusing on the wrong fire- sense.He israrely
part Ofany and the uniqu eness of his life, lifestyle,
family dynamics, and startup is areflection of con-
scious choices he's made to do things differently.

FOREWORD

He can blunt asa foot to the face, but that's part ofwhatI
love and respect about him: you never have to guess what Naval
is thinking. IVe never had to AI ess how feeling me,
else, ora situation.This isa huge reliefinaworld of
double-talk and am

Weye a lot a lot ofd", and
around the world together.Thatb all to that, while I con-
sider myself a people-watcher, I consider myself an
excellent Naval-watcher.He is one of the people I call most
for advice, and I've watcha him in many habitats through
many easy times, hard times, recessions, booms—
you name it.

Sure, he's the CEO anda co-founder of AngelList.Sure, he
previously Vastrom and Epinions, which went
public as ofShopping.com.Sure, heS an angel investor
and has in many successes, including Twitter,
Uber, Yammer, and OpenDNS, to name buta few.