Akira The Don, Naval Ravikant - Take Risk lyrics

Embrace accountability and take
Business risks under your own name
Society will reward you
With responsibility, equity, and leverage
To get rich, you're gonna need leverage
Leverage comes in labor, it comes in capital
Or it can come through code or media
But most of these, like labor and capital
People have to give to you
For labor, somebody has to follow you
For capital
Somebody has to give you money or
Assets to manage or machines
So to get these things
You havе to build up credibility and you
Have to do those undеr your own
Name as much as possible, which is risky
Which is risky
So accountability is a double-edged thing
It allows you to take credit when
Things go well and to
Bear the brunt of the failure
When things go badly

But you take risk (That's right) , risk
So you take risk of failure
Risk of humiliation
You take risk of failure under your own name
You take risks (That's right) , risk
And the people who have the
Ability to fail in public
Under their own names gain a lot of power

People stamping their names on
Things aren't foolish they're just confident
By putting your name out there, you become
A celebrity and fame has many
Many downsides
It's better to be anonymous and
Rich than poor and famous
But even famous and rich has a
Lot of downsides associated with it
You're always in the public eye
A lot of our training socially
Is telling us to
Not stick our necks out of the crowd
The tall poppy gets cut
Don't stick your neck out but
Clear accountability is important
Without accountability
You don't have incentives
Without accountability
You can't build credibility

You take risk (That's right) , risk
So you take risk of failure
Risk of humiliation
You take risk of failure under your own name
You take risk (That's right) , risk
And the people who have the
Ability to fail in public
Under their own names gain a lot of power

In modern society
There's no more debtors' prison
People don't go to jail or get
Executed for losing other people's money
But we're still socially hard wired to not
Fail in public under our own names
Up until about 2013, 2014
My public persona was entirely
Around startups and investing
And only around 2014
2015 did I start talking about
Philosophy and psychological things
And it made me a little nervous because I
Was doing it under my own name
People in the industry sent me
Messages and were like
"What are you doing? You're ending
Your career this is stupid"
And I kind of just went with it
I took a risk
Same with crypto, early on, I took a risk
But when you put your name out
There, you take a risk
You also get to reap the rewards
You get the benefit's
(People take risks, take a risk, take a risk
Risk, You take a risk for certain things
You get to reap the
Rewards and the benefit's)

You take risk (That's right) , risk
So you take risk of failure
Risk of humiliation
You take risk of failure under your own name
You take risk (That's right) , risk
And the people who have the
Ability to fail in public
Under their own names gain a lot of power