From the Wiki article, "Ravikant moved to New York City with his family at the age of 9".
I still think what he has achieved is great and love some of what he shares but Naval can sometimes make things sound grander than they are.
One of my uncles went to Carnegie Mellon on a full scholarship in the 80s.He hailed from a village where education was the least priority. He was very poor but figured his way out without any money. It can be done.
Please share a specific thing. Just curious.
He said he was raised by a single-mom, so shouldn't that be singular?
She also apparently worked two jobs just to make sure he had an education. In that sense Naval was certainly lucky to have someone that supportive, but from what I have heard about him he was also working every little job on the side he could to make money in his early teens'. So they were poor but they seemed definitely hard working.