Naval Ravikant

Who is Naval Ravikant?

Naval Ravikant is the chairman of Vast.com and previously founded Genoa

Corporation (acquired by Finisar) and Epinions (which went public as

part of Shopping.com). Previously, he was a venture partner at August

Capital and led investments in Scintera, Neopath, Technorati,

Microdisplay, DeviceScape, and Mimosa. Startups Naval has helped and

advised in areas ranging from founding to product design to fundraising

include iPivot (sold to Intel), Intrinsic Graphics, Andale, XFire (sold

to Viacom), HedgeStreet, Engage, Photo.net, LoyaltyLab, Jaman, Hive7,

Dulance (sold to Google), and Bix (sold to Yahoo!). Naval currently

manages a small fund focused on early-stage social media investments

and co-authors Venturehacks.com.