Naveen Jain: Immigrant & Now Billionaire, On Bettering The World One Company at a Time
My guest today on E297 of #thePOZcast is Naveen Jain. Naveen’s current ventures include Viome and Moon Express. As a serial entrepreneur, he previously founded InfoSpace, Intelius, and TalentWise. At Viome, Naveen’s mission is to “make illness optional.” Viome has built an AI-driven platform that analyzes the interaction between food, our microbiome, and our human cells to develop precision nutrition to prevent and reverse chronic diseases. Moon Express is the only company globally with permission to harvest resources from the moon—developing the infrastructure to push humanity toward a true multi-planetary society. In addition to his current moonshots, he is the Vice-Chairman of the Board at Singularity University, where he focuses on educating and inspiring leaders to utilize innovative technologies to address humanity’s most significant challenges. He is also on the Board of the XPRIZE Foundation, an organization that uses incentivized prize competition to push the limits of what’s possible — to change the world for the better. Naveen’s got a roster of past, present and likely future ventures with some pretty incredible impact, so I will dig into that and more on this jam-packed, value add episode. Check it out! For more on Naveen, please visit: https://naveenjain.com/ This episode is brought to you by MANSCAPED®. The brand that took your balls to space is now launching them into the ultra-sphere, Introducing The Lawn Mower® 5.0 ULTRA. Featuring a new cutting-edge design and next-generation, dual SkinSafe™ Blade Heads for different shaves — it’s pretty much a spaceship to take your boys downstairs to the next level. Join the 9 million men worldwide who trust MANSCAPED with the BRAND NEW The Lawn Mower 5.0 Ultra by going to manscaped.com for 20% off + free shipping with the code "POZCAST". #thePOZcast is brought to you by our friends at Interseller – the prospecting + outreach platform of recruiters and sellers. Check out a free demo today! https://bit.ly/2Fbm/BZ Thanks for listening, and please follow us on Insta @NHPTalent and X @AdamJPosner. Please visit www.thePOZcast.com thanks!
The POZCAST: Decoding Success with Adam Posner
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Show Notes
2:24 - Growing up in the early 60's
3:31 - Parent's upbringing
4:30 - Self-Love
4:56 - Naveen falling in love with himself (for the first time)
5:50 - The butterfly effect
7:26 - Early business influences / pull toward technology and innovation
9:05 - Vision of Bill Gates (before and after joining Microsoft)
11:04 - Bill Gates as a manager, people leader
13:54 - What is money to you?
15:39 - Motivation to move on/self-innovate
17:52 - Decision to leave Microsoft
19:23 - Netscape IPO
27:03 - Having a clear vision
28:48 - Number 1 predictor of success
29:58 - The Crystal ball
38:50 - Hot take on electric cars
40:05 - Future is Energy
41:20 - Understanding Viome
47:47 - Identification of disease/function
50:44 - Pushback to this technology
51:42 - Determine character and value during the interview
53:22 - How to remove bias
54:00 - Passion is for lovers
55:27 - The Single greatest piece of advice
56:05 - Naveen Jain's North star