Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It With Kamal Ravikant and Joe Polish

Joe Polish sits down with venture capitalist and Author Kamal Ravikant, for an unusually candid conversation about losing everything, the one-word vow that pulled him back from it, and what actually separates the investors who get rich from the ones who get wiped out.

Here's what you're about to discover in this conversation:

Why Kamal Ravikant hit a point so low after losing every dollar of his company, and his investors' money, that he could barely stand the sound of his own head. The one-word vow Kamal made to himself alone in a room, never intended to write down, and why he treats a promise to yourself as sacred as a marriage vow. How his inner dialogue flipped from self-hatred to something he can only call magic in about a week and a half, with zero drugs or alcohol involved. The night at a private Silicon Valley wine bar when a still mostly unknown Elon Musk answered a question about the single most important advice for a CEO, and the two words that stuck with Kamal for decades. The mindset flip his mentor Bill Coons taught him that separates the angel investors who lose $750,000 to $1,000,000 from the ones who spot every hole in a pitch. How a $35,000 check Kamal wrote to an unproven founder on Skype in 2016 is now worth roughly $6,000,000, and the one portfolio rule he swears by so a single hit can outrun every loss combined. If you'd like to join world-renowned Entrepreneurs at the next Genius Network® Event, apply today for your invitation to attend at https://geniusnetwork.com.

Show Notes

The Elon Musk Story From a Private Wine Bar

Years before Tesla and SpaceX made him a household name, Kamal found himself in a small private Silicon Valley wine bar with about 20 people and Elon Musk. Someone in the group asked Musk for the single most important piece of advice he would give a CEO, and Kamal, stressed and overworked at the time, leaned in expecting something about cash flow. Musk's answer was to get rid of negative people, because keeping them on only lets them ruin everybody else around them. Decades later, Kamal still points to that moment as an early lesson in what it looks like to truly value yourself enough to walk away from what is not serving you. Growing Up an Immigrant Kid in Jamaica, Queens

Kamal was raised by a single mother in Jamaica, Queens, the neighborhood widely credited as the birthplace of hip hop. He explains the story behind his long last name and what it meant to grow up, in his words, as an immigrant child. He