Naval Ravikant Advises Startups To Skip Networking And Build Great Products

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@ValaAfshar @naval The legal fraternity could learn this. Too much time buying awards and attending events. Not enough doing work.

The trap is thinking the network comes first. It does not. I spent the first two years building Docuee in relative silence. No network to speak of. No investors. No connections to the right people. Then I started showing up on X with something real to say about education, AI and what it actually looks like to build something from Nigeria. The network started finding me. Not because I networked. Because I was doing something I genuinely believed was worth doing and said so out loud consistently. Naval is right. The network is a byproduct of the work. Not a prerequisite for it.