Naveen Jain - Billionaire Founder of Viome, Moon Express & Author of Counterintuitive | He Quit Microsoft With No Plan and Built a $40B Internet Company

➡️ Join 321,000 people who read my free weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.scottdclary.com ➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur and technology executive best known as the founder of InfoSpace, which he built from six employees into one of the largest internet companies in the American Northwest during the dot-com era, reaching a peak market capitalization of $31 billion. In 2003, he left InfoSpace to launch Intelius, one of the first companies to offer public records information to consumers, growing it to over $150 million in annual revenue and 500 employees before its sale in 2015. He co-founded Moon Express in 2010, where he serves as executive chairman and which became the first private company approved by the U.S. government to land on the lunar surface, and founded Viome in 2016, where he is CEO applying AI and RNA sequencing to precision health. ➡️ Show Links https://www.instagram.com/naveenjainceo/  https://x.com/Naveen_Jain_CEO  https://www.linkedin.com/in/naveenjainintelius  ➡️ Podcast Sponsors Hubspot - https://hubspot.com/   Huel - https://huel.com/scott (Code: scott) Odoo – https://www.odoo.com  NetSuite - https://netsuite.com/scottclary/  Indeed - https://indeed.com/clary Framer - https://framer.com/design (Code: SuccessStory) LinkedIn Ads - https://linkedin.com/scottclary  Priori - https://priori.life/  Mars Men - https://mengotomars.com/  Upwork - https://upwork.com/  Xero - https://www.xero.com  Dell - dell.com/dell-pro  AutoPilot - https://www.joinautopilot.com/landing  Cohesity - https://www.cohesity.com/datacloud  Amp - https://amp.ai (Code: successstory) Whatnot - https://www.whatnot.com/ Monarch - https://www.monarch.com/ (Code: success) Hostinger - https://www.hostinger.com/success (Code: success) Cash App - https://cash.app/ (Code: cashapp10) MyFitnessPal - https://podcasts.myfitnesspal.com (Code: SCOTT) Plaud – https://plaud.ai/success (Code: success) ➡️ Talking Points 00:00 – Intro 04:49 – From Poverty to Purpose 07:58 – The Mindset That Changed Everything 10:15 – How Naveen Raised Entrepreneurial Kids 18:56 – The Secret Behind His Children's Success 25:37 – Sponsor Break 27:24 – What Made His Companies Win 42:57 – Chasing Moonshots Without Going Broke 47:27 – Get a Job or Raise Capital? 53:32 – When to Leave Your Job for Entrepreneurship 56:12 – Sponsor Break 58:59 – Is Your Moonshot Too Small? 1:01:01 – Never Stop Learning 1:04:48 – Advice to His 27-Year-Old Self 1:05:35 – Where True Greatness Comes From 1:08:32 – Life Never Stops Teaching 1:11:00 – The Lesson He'd Leave His Children