Kamal Ravikant

Kamal Ravikant is a founder, investor, and author of non-fiction and fiction books. He received his Bachelor's in Economics and Biology from the University of Rochester. Kamal Ravikant has founded companies in Silicon Valley since the late 1990s. This includes founding and serving as CEO of Genetics. As an Investor, Kamal Ravikant works to follow investors such as Naval Ravikant, Tim Chang, and Brian Norgard and invest alongside them at the same terms. In his investments, he works to offer the companies his network of entrepreneurs, helps the companies find other investments, and promote them through national media. 

Kamal trekked to one of the highest base camps in the Himalayas, earned his US Army Infantry patch, walked 550 miles across Spain, lived in Paris, and bungee jumped out of a perfectly good hot air balloon. He had hung out with some of his favorite authors and been the only non-black, non-woman member of the Black Women’s writers’ group. He has written a novel about love, forgiveness, and facing our fears.

Kamal has danced the merengue on hot nights in the Caribbean, kite surfed (badly), sailed off the West coast of France, and watched double rainbows, shooting stars, sunrises, and sunsets in various parts of the world. He has driven like a maniac on Highway 1, won a San Francisco-wide modeling contest, got drunk on the same barstool as Hemingway, watched Ben Kingsley eat a sandwich in his boxers, felt the smooth marble of the Taj Mahal against my bare feet, held the hands of dying patients, sang in the shower (badly), made love to some beautiful and amazing women (not too badly), co-founded a company with the guy who wrote the first browser, and been fortunate enough to work with some of the smartest investors and engineers in Silicon Valley.