Billion Moonshots: Recent Episodes
Prashant Bagga
Teaching 1B people how to be a go-getter 🔥 Ranked Top 15 on Apple Podcasts Hosted CEO's of $100M startups. Listen at 1.5x for the best experience.
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Solana Mobile launched a web3-focused Android mobile phone Saga, along with an open-source software toolkit, Solana Mobile Stack; and is looking to take on the phone and app ecosystem giants like Apple and Google.We talked about the process of launching new hardware, working with the team behind Essential Phone, origin story of Solana Mobile, why the web3 ecosystem needs a web3 phone, and much more.
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GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/creativedrewy
Website: https://solanamobile.com/
CONNECT
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OUTLINE
(00:00) - Working with the team behind Essential phone(02:00) - Origin story of Solana Mobile(05:06) - Impact of a web3 phone on the ecosystem(10:45) - Manufacturing Process(15:20) - Feature 1: Seed Vault(18:55) - Feature 2: Wallet Adapter(20:01) - Feature 3: Dapp Store(27:27) - User Experience(31:40) - Launch(34:35) - Dapp Ideas
TOP EPISODES
87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Michael founded Etherspot, offering account abstraction SDK to improve the web3 user experience. We talk about abstraction, wallet as a service, onboarding web2 developers to web3, leveraging AI, and much more.
SPONSORS
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio?fpr=prashant and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mm319
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelmessele/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/etherspot
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/GAkYj6m5Uh
Telegram: https://t.me/etherspot
Website: etherspot.io
Build: https://buidler.etherspot.io/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(00:00) - What is account abstraction?
(08:07) - Wallet as a Service & Social Login
(33:40) - Onboarding web2 developers to web3
(35:51) - Leveraging AI
TOP EPISODES
87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Wojtek is the Founder of Mazury.xyz - a web3 platform to earn, display, and use your web3 credentials to access exclusive job and career growth opportunities.We talked about going from a broke college dropout to raising million dollars for Mazury, ideal user experience for freelancers, the downside of building in a bull market, web3 messaging, and much more.
SPONSORS
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio?fpr=prashant and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wojtekwtf
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wojtekwojtek/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(00:00) - Broke college dropout to raising million dollars in crypto
(06:03) - Origin story of Mazury
(10:30) - Is it web3 LinkedIn?
(14:40) - Being a founder in this space
(23:15) - Ideal UX for freelancers & recruiters on Mazury
(34:38) - Downsides of building in a bull market
(40:12) - Mazury vs Braintrust
(44:11) - Mazury integrating XMTP
TOP EPISODES
87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Christopher is the founder of meTokens - allowing individuals to issue their own personal tokens. Personal tokens can be used to pay builders & creators for their work or to gain special access to their inboxes and calendar.
We talk about the history of Personal Tokens, setting up a personal DAO, experiments in this space, token-gated experiences, future of Chris's token, and more.
SPONSORS
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBobRobison
MeTokens: https://metokens.com
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(00:00) - Origin story of meTokens
(7:08) - Personal Tokens will lead to a better society
(14:50) - Personal DAOs ?!?
(18:16) - Live Discord concerts
(19:54) - Experiments with Personal Tokens
(25:20) - Token-gated experiences
(27:32) - "Separation of Money and State" - E.C. Riegal
(34:26) - Aligning incentives for issuer and holder
(43:15) - Payment with meTokens
(48:05) - User Adoption
(51:34) - Future of $CBOB token
(53:26) - Revisiting Payment with meTokens
TOP EPISODES
87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Arman and Parker are the founders of Peaze - allowing you to use any dapp with just an email and credit card. A lot of cool things are being built in web3 - but most of the new users who come in are unable to use them.
Users have to download a wallet, manage the private keys, on-ramp the correct crypto, swap it into the correct asset, bridge, transfer over from Coinbase, etc. Web3 user onboarding is a real problem. What if you could just sign in with your email.
SPONSORS
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArmanVaziri || https://twitter.com/Peaze
Medium: https://medium.com/@Peaze
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/arman-vaziri/ || https://www.linkedin.com/company/76595591
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(00:00) - Leaving big tech job for build in web3
(03:30) - Origin story of Peaze
(5:59) - How Peaze lowers the barrier to entry for dapps
(08:30) - What happens behind the scenes when a user signs-in with Google on Peaze?
(10:00) - How Peaze secures the private keys of a user?
(11:23) - Narrowing down on the user onboarding problem
(13:49) - Is Peaze Stripe for web3?
(17:25) - User education around web3 concepts
(21:10) - North Star Metric of Peaze
(24:19) - The one-click experience
(30:53) - Helping users become self-custodian
(32:35) - DeFi is the use case for crypto
'(35:12) - Market Adoption
(37:44) - The Peaze Logo
(38:40) - Raising $2m during a crypto downturn
(51:02) - Other Web3 Trends
TOP EPISODES
87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Tristen Larsen is the founder and CEO of Blockem AI, an advanced anti-scam detection software for Ethereum wallets.
We talked about how trust percentages are calculated, losing $20K in a crypto scam, origin story of Blockem, why web3 UX sucks, how their team flagged FTX wallets 2 months before the whole fiasco and much more.
SPONSORS
XMTP: https://xmtp.org/
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Suited_ETH
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suited/
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristen-larsen-%F0%9F%93%B2-1a953a114/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(00:00) - How is the Trust Percentage calculated?
(02:50) - Scams in Crypto
(4:24) - Losing $20,000 in a scam
(9:47) - Origin story of Blockem
(14:31) - Product Insights
(20:07) - Web3 UX sucks
(23:04) - What does the Trust Percentage mean?
(27:10) - Red flags in Smart Contracts
(31:39) - Ideal user experience of Blockem
(36:33) - Creative new scams in the industry
(39:00) - Flagged FTX 2 months before the whole fiasco !!
(42:54) - Story of coming up with the name
(47:11) - Remote culture
(52:31) - Reading 15 books per month
TOP EPISODES
87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Ayush Ranjan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Huddle01 - enabling open and decentralized video meetings. We talked about building Huddle01 at a hackathon, what happens behind the scenes during a video call, decentralization efforts, finding product market fit and green crypto.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ranjan3118
Farcaster: @ranjan3118
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ranjan_3018/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjan18/https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjan18/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Why web3 Zoom?
(3:53) - Meeting Co-Founder
(5:46) - Building Huddle01 at a hackathon
(09:50) - Architecture Overview
(13:22) - Decentralization efforts & tradeoffs
(29:20) - Finding Product Market Fit
(37:23) - Quality vs Speed
(38:32) - Green Crypto
(40:51) - Longevity, Space & Quantum
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Pei Li dropped out of the University of Toronto to go full-time at Weathsimple, started a software consulting agency, and is now the co-founder of Venue.
We talk about growing up in a financially poor background, landing internships at IBM and Shopify, traveling in Asia, building software consulting agencycanva and much more.
SPONSORS
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Website: https://www.venue.live/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peicodes/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Growing up in a financially poor background
(4:23) - Landing internship at IBM, Shopify & Wealthsimple
(11:41) - First shot at building startup
(15:42) - Travelling & consulting
(24:05) - Joining Venue
(26:25) - Replacing in-person conferences
(30:00) - Venue's value proposition
(37:30) - Raising $4M
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Delian Asparouhov is a principal at the Founders Fund and co-founder of Varda Space Industries, a space manufacturing startup.
We talked about juggling between a VC and founder role, the science of space manufacturing, future plans, life of a space factory worker, creating zero-gravity on Earth, hiring from SpaceX, superpower of Peter Thiel, and more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zebulgar?s=20&t=pfJTZ4FToEOJ2NY7gjAt2g
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/delian-asparouhov-87447742/
Website: https://varda.com/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Juggling between VC and founder role
(5:18) - Science of space manufacturing
(12:45) - Putting Factories in Space
(18:30) - Life of a space factory worker
(21:09) - Is zero-gravity manufacturing on Earth possible?
(27:28) - Hiring from SpaceX's Dragon team
(33:29) - Role of NASA in the space economy
(37:32) - Economic incentives in the space industry
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Sukhman & his co-founder both worked as data consultants where they helped companies understand their customers. This included analyzing consumer behavior, habits, and demographics. While in these roles they started to see the blatant disregard for consumer privacy to prioritize marketing and profits. The work they did exploited customer data and directly provided millions of dollars in value to these companies. They felt like villains at work.
This is when they started researching ways to protect their own online privacy and realized how difficult this task was. The onus was continuously on the average person to follow best practices, which often required tons of conscious effort and ruined the user experience.
This is why they came up with Cyder. Cyder is a browser extension that makes privacy, and data ownership simple, free, and accessible to everyone. Their mission has always been to create an internet where users own and get compensated for their data.
We talk about building Cyder, disregard for consumer privacy, expectation vs reality of being a founder, going viral with YC application video, and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sukhmandulay/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cyder/
Cyder: https://www.getcyder.com/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Data consulting after graduation
(4:00) - Feeling like villains at work
(13:33) - Decentralized blockchain for data security
(17:56) - Data Ethics
(22:59) - Ad desensitization
(28:35) - Origin story of Cyder
(37:08) - Expectation vs Reality of being a founder
(41:30) - Importance of having a co-founder
(44:10) - Going viral with YC application video
(46:20) - Do you still feel like a villain at work?
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Shane Mac is building a crypto-native communication protocol for web3. Similar to SMTP for email, XMTP will enable communication between existing crypto wallets via its own independent protocol and decentralized network.
XMTP has raised a $20M Series A from a16z Crypto, with participation from strategic angels like Packy McCormick, Alexis Ohanian, Anthony Pompliano, Austin Rief, Balaji Srinivasan, Bored Elon, Naval Ravikant, Rahul Vohra, Scott Belsky, and Sriram Krishnan.
We talk about being young and lucky, learnings from interviewing Gary Vee, writing a book at 23, entrepreneurship, the origin story of XMTP, and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shanemac
Blog: https://blog.shanemac.com/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Young and Lucky
(12:22) - Getting calmer
(18:31) - Gary Vee
(25:37) - Hosting Podcast
(30:57) - Great podcast episode
(32:08) - Heavy Conversations
(40:33) - Culture
(42:50) - Writing Book
(52:00) - Entrepreneurship
(59:06) - XMTP
(01:04:25) - Meaning of Life
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Tyler Denk led product & growth at Morning Brew, did product stint at Google and then last year, launched beehiiv - a newsletter platform empowering creators to monetize and grow like never before.
We talked about building startup in college, dropping Big 4 consulting firm to join Morning Brew, scaling newsletter to 3M subcribers, product management lessons from Google, launching beehiiv, why email newsletter is a great business and more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio?fpr=prashant and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tylerdenk_/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/denk_tweets
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Building startup in college
(4:57) - Dropping Big 4 consulting firm to join Morning Brew
(9:05) - Early success of Morning Brew
(10:40) - Sending newsletter from bars & games
(14:31) - Lessons from growing newsletter to 3M subs
(17:42) - Economics of newsletter
(20:38) - The Hustle & competition
(22:28) - Morning Brew's world-class Referral Program
(27:25) - Product Management lessons from Google
(36:10) - Origin story of beehiiv
(41:28) - Why email newsletter is a great business?
(50:37) - Growth channels
(53:28) - Taking ad-share away from Facebook and Google
(56:05) - Homegrown Success Story: Milkroad.com
(58:01) - Fundraising
(58:55) - Web3
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Rachael Zisk is a journalist at Payload Space - where she covers the business and policy of space in their daily newsletter. We talk about becoming a space journalist, development of the James Webb Space Telescope, all the magnificent JWST images, instruments onboard and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaelzisk/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RachaelZisk
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Becoming a Space Journalist
(5:40) - Background of James Webb Space Telescope
(12:45) - Instruments onboard JWST
(15:15) - Possibility of life on WASP-96B
(16:41) - Beautiful cosmic cliffs of Carina Nebula
(17:21) - How stars are born?
(19:25) - Southern Ring Nebula
(20:39) - Stephan's Quintet
(22:18) - GLASS-z13 galaxy
(26:07) - 344 Single Point of Failures
(28:47) - Deciding what to capture
(32:40) - Is money spent on space worth it?
(36:25) - JWST sustaining a micrometeoroid impact
(41:57) - New Space Science newsletter
(50:50) - Conclusion
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Arvin Khamseh is a NFT marketing expert. He has helped 400+ NFT brands sell out. One of them made $10m+ in 20 hours.
We talked about the current state of NFT market, biohacking, web3 vs web2 marketing, working with 400+ collections, and much more.
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GUEST LINKS
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvinkhamseh/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arvinknft
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arvinknft
Website: soldoutnfts.io
CONNECT
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OUTLINE
(0:00) - Current state of NFT market
(4:16) - Noise vs Signal in NFT conferences
(10:12) - How he got into Web3
(21:15) - How NFT marketing works
(23:27) - Marketing in Web3 vs Web2
(32:13) - Making $10M in 20 hours
(37:06) - Is sell out guaranteed?
(40:46) - Are NFTs hyped?
(45:11) - $800 for a 30 min call
(49:15) - Does good artwork or utility guarantee sell out?
(52:00) - Biohacking
(57:15) - Conclusion
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Kurtis Hanni helps business owners understand their financial statements and teaches them how to use numbers to think strategically about the business. He also runs a podcast called Frameworks & Finance.
We talk about personal finance, living with intention, content consumption, storytelling, credit cards, the Waterline Principle, and much more.
SPONSORS
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Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtishanni/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KurtisHanni
Website: https://kurtishanni.com/
CONNECT
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Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Graduating in the 2008 crash
(3:11) - Should you cut your credit card?
(10:15) - The importance of learning business finance
(23:00) - Living with Intention
(25:20) - Jurassic Park movie is not about Dinosaurs
(27:55) - Increase your content consumption
(37:57) - Frameworks for Life and Business
(47:00) - Rhythms of life
(51:10) - Building 'Frameworks & Finance' Podcast
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Josh Kaplan is the Co-founder & CEO of Smooth Media where they help creators build media businesses. After graduation, he joined PwC and then, led Audio Products at Morning Brew.
We talked about getting into Morning Brew, experiences working with founders, lessons learnt from launching Business Casual podcast, origin of Smooth Media, and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-kaplan-35029b73/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JKaplan1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josh_kaplan_/
Website: https://www.smoothmedia.co/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
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OUTLINE
(0:00) - Quitting PwC to join Morning Brew
(2:56) - Early days of Morning Brew
(4:46) - Growing Business Casual podcast to millions of downloads
(7:05) - Getting Mark Cuban on the pod
(11:09) - Origin story of Smooth Media
(13:41) - Landing Colin & Samir as first client
(17:44) - Smooth Media vs Jelly Smack
(22:52) - Trends in Creator Economy
(26:52) - Business Model of Smooth
(28:22) - Solving Tax Filing for Creators
(29:54) - Potential of Creator-led brands
(32:58) - Being Founder vs Employee
(36:40) - Creator Anxiety
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Aditi Kothari is the Product Manager of Razorpay Rize. She got into product management in an unconventional way, after randomly meeting the founder of Rapido in a cafe. Previously, she was PM at Bounce and runs a CBC (cohort-based-course) on No Code for Airtribe.
We talked about breaking into product management, landing PM role at Razorpay, the fundamental difference between Swiggy and Zomato, micromobility strategy of Bounce, and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditi-kothari/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/aditikothari_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aditi_kothari_/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
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OUTLINE
(0:00) - Got into Product Management after meeting a founder in cafe
(7:25) - Life as a PM
(11:24) - Strategy of Bounce during COVID
(12:19) - Cracking Razorpay
(14:31) - Interview rounds of Razorpay
(18:38) - Fundamental difference between Swiggy & Zomato
(20:50) - Impact of Razorpay Rize Program
(25:23) - Reality of No-code tools
(30:30) - Hosting CBC on No code with Airtribe
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Jeremy Moser is the CEO of uSERP, a $4M SEO agency that he scaled from 0 to $1,000,000 in ARR in just one year. They’ve worked with brands like Freshworks, ActiveCampaign, Monday.com, Robinhood, etc. He also owns a SaaS business called Wordable and he occasionally writes for Entrepreneur magazine.
We talk about being a Twitch streamer even before it was a thing, why startups should invest early and often in SEO, why agency can be an incredible business model, acquiring SaaS startup, using Twitter for lead generation, infinite networking, and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyamoser/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmoserr
Website: https://userp.io/
CONNECT
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Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Getting paid to play video games in high school
(3:18) - Why SEO
(4:30) - Why agency is an incredible business model
(6:45) - Reaching $1M ARR in the first year
(10:04) - What does a successful SEO agency do?
(11:40) - How are brands adapting to the upcoming recession?
(13:26) - How to price your services and capture upside?
(21:16) - Objections to closing clients
(23:16) - How long does it take to get results from SEO?
(26:30) - Monday.com Case Study
(29:52) - Economics of Acquiring a SaaS startup
(37:47) - Leveraging Twitter for Lead Generation
(41:02) - Twitter vs LinkedIn
(44:55) - Good copywriting requires unlearning everything that school taught
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Anshul Rustaggi graduated from IIT, then IIM, worked at a hedge fund in London, came back to India, went to law school, got into the cannabis business, and now is building in web3 with Zionverse.
We discuss crypto bear markets, tokenomics, how web3 incentivizes the right behaviour, the Bible of Metaverse, why Twitter only allows 280 characters, web4 and more.
SPONSORS
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Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anshulrustagi/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshulrustaggi/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnshulRustaggi
CONNECT
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OUTLINE
(0:00) - Crypto Bear Market
(11:14) - What kicked off Bear Market
(18:32) - Stablecoin is gateway to mass crypto adoption
(24:50) - Wikipedia should adopt cryptocurrency
(27:44) - Web3 incentivizes the right behaviour
(31:53) - Zionverse 101
(39:29) - Why Metaverse will be Mobile-driven not VR-driven
(46:07) - Why do they hand out "Snow Crash" to every new team member
(49:47) - Building a Web3 company
(01:01:35) - Roadmap of Zionverse
(01:05:48) - Why do we play Teen Patti on Diwali
(01:08:46) - Web4 ?!?!?!
(01:13:43) - Video games are extremely valuable for Kids
(01:20:51) - Future
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Tibo started his career selling TVs and now makes $1M in ARR from his Twitter growth tool, TweetHunter.
We talk about learnings from the first startup, shipping a product every 2 weeks, success of TweetHunter, acquiring initial users, finding a co-founder, making $1M ARR, and more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tibo_maker
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thibaultll/
OUTLINE
(0:00) Selling TVs
(2:32) First Startup: Motivating Kids to do chores
(9:50) Shipping a product every 2 weeks
(14:59) Success of TweetHunter
(19:26) Acquiring Initial Users & Finding Co-founder on Twitter
(25:20) How to validate idea
(28:18) Importance of building audience for Founders
(34:55) Marketing your side projects
(36:49) Making $1M ARR from TweetHunter
(40:45) The viral TweetHunter Challenge
(43:48) Replicating TweetHunter Success on LinkedIn
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Sang Le, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Shashank Kumar is co-founder of Razorpay - a $7.5B fintech giant in India. He graduated from IIT Roorkee, worked at Microsoft in Seattle, was driving Mustang, and still felt he could do more. So he flew back to India and built a unicorn.
We talked about life post-graduation, living in US, convincing dad to move back to India, early days of Razorpay, getting into YC, imposter syndrome, and much more.
SPONSORS
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Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shashank_kr
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumarshashank/
CONNECT
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Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) Driving Mustang at 22
(4:58) Life in US post IIT
(9:02) Origin of Razorpay
(15:03) Dad's reaction to coming back home
(18:06) Finding Product-Market Fit
(21:20) How Y Combinator took growth to another level
(26:21) Paid 25 lacs to get a Payment Gateway License
(30:20) Imposter Syndrome
(34:51) Hiring first 10 employees
(38:53) The story behind the name 'Razorpay'
(40:43) RBI driving innovation in the Indian fintech ecosystem
(43:08) Living with co-founder even today
(44:57) Future of Tier 3 & Tier 4 cities
(48:12) Philosophy of Money
(52:07) Day in Life as CTO of a unicorn
(54:13) Razorpay's Web3 strategy
(56:45) Reverse Brain Drain
(1:02:56) Dad's Reaction today [MUST WATCH]
TOP EPISODES
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Jenna Hannon is the Founder at Supermassiv. She led marketing at Uber Eats and is now building Supermassiv to help artists make real money.
We talk about teaching kitesurfing to Elon Musk, how the new CEO changed the culture at Uber, making money with NFTs as a musician, having lunch with Val Kilmer, and more.
SPONSORS
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Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JennaHannon
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennahannon/
Website: https://jennahannon.com/
AngelList: https://angel.co/p/jenna-hannon
CONNECT
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Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) Teaching Elon Musk how to Kitesurf
(4:02) Email to new Uber CEO
(6:19) How new CEO changed the culture at Uber
(10:14) Why quit Uber
(12:01) Origin story of Supermassiv
(14:35) State of Music Industry
(21:45) How TikTok changed Music
(25:32) Getting into Crypto back in 2011
(30:54) What's wrong with NFTs
(33:52) Most creative NFTs
(36:45) How Artists can make money with NFTs
(40:59) How Supermassiv works
(47:45) What's Web 2.5 ??
(48:40) The Supermassiv Vision
(54:53) Lunch with Val Kilmer
TOP EPISODES
71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund
68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Kyla is an independent, Gen Z friendly, new-age content creator with a fantastic newsletter and YouTube channel. She wrote her first book “The Little Penguin” in third grade, started options trading at 16, sold cars in college, garnered ~130k followers on TikTok with her finance skits and working with top brands like Morning Brew & Bankless. She's also building a fintech startup in stealth (launching soon).
We talk about doing options trading at 16, selling cars in college, the right time to publish on Tiktok, monetary policies, sneak peek into her startup, and more.
SPONSORS
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Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
CONNECT
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GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kylascan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylascanlon/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylascan/
Website: https://kylascanlon.com/
Newsletter: https://kyla.substack.com/
OUTLINE
(0:00) Options Trading at 16
(2:54) How Options Trading works?
(5:38) Selling over $1M worth of cars in college
(9:41) Writing book in 3rd grade
(10:35) Content Creation
(14:29) Power of TikTok
(19:16) What is the right time to post on TikTok?
(20:43) The Fed, Monetary Policies & Inflation
(25:33) It's a good time to Buy
(27:49) Bullish on Metaverse?
(33:57) Building Financial Education Company
(34:27) Day in Life!
(38:30) Closing first sponsorship deal w/ Morning Brew
(40:12) Is Venture Capital a Ponzi Scheme?
(42:57) Web4???
(45:10) Elon vs Twitter
(47:18) Cheat Codes for Creators
TOP EPISODES
71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund
68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Adam Jackson is the co-founder of Braintrust - the largest decentralized talent marketplace. Braintrust’s mission is to build the world’s most impactful talent network — one that is user-owned, aligns incentives, and redistributes value to Talent and Organizations. Previously, Adam founded 4 VC-backed companies, sold 2 of them, and is an angel investor in 100+ companies.
We talk about Web2 vs Web3 marketplaces, building a successful governance model, mechanics of DAO, freelance economy, message for Web3 critics, and much more.
SPONSORS
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Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamjacksonsf
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajackson/
Website: http://www.usebraintrust.com/
Portfolio: https://angel.co/p/adamjackson
OUTLINE
(0:00) Built 4 companies, sold 2 of them
(1:31) Solving the Chicken & Egg problem of Marketplaces
(4:07) "Dirty little secret" of Web2 Marketplaces
(7:43) Venture Capital as a forcing function that leads to fee extraction
(9:33) First encounter with Blockchain
(10:49) BTRST as a Governance Token
(12:52) Is Braintrust a DAO?
(14:16) What happens when DAO members don't execute a proposal
(16:49) What's working, what's not working
(19:55) Role of a DAO Founder
(21:18) Value of a Token
(22:51) What happens when VCs hold a lot of tokens
(23:54) Growing from 0 to 700,000 members during the pandemic
(25:32) Convincing Nike, Goldman Sachs & other Web2 co's to get onboard
(28:12) Hiring remotely & globally
(30:07) How the freelance economy is helping corporate America
(33:07) Vetting new Talent
(35:05) Coordinating 100+ developers to build DAO
(41:19) How many tokens does Adam own?
(42:00) Crypto Twitter & Future of Web3
(46:24) Are you buying the dip?
(46:49) Message for Web3 Critics
TOP EPISODES
71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund
68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Ryan Duffy is the Founding Editor of Payload Space, a digital media outfit covering the business and policy of space. Previously, he worked at Morning Brew where he launched their second product, Emerging Tech Brew. Over three years Ryan was at the Brew, the newsletter grew to a subscriber base of 300,000+, all while maintaining industry-leading open rates.
We talk about getting detained by the UN in Haiti, time at Morning Brew, scaling Emerging Tech Brew from 0 to 300K readers and a lot of space meta trends.
SPONSORS
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Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
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GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ryandoofy
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfduffy/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/duffydrones/
Website: https://ryanduffy.xyz/
Payload Newsletter: https://payloadspace.com/
OUTLINE
(0:00) Getting detained by the United Nations in Haiti
(3:26) Not setting a predetermined path for yourself
(8:34) Solo creator vs traditional media
(11:21) Deciding to Write Full-time
(17:13) Getting into Morning Brew with a Facebook Event description
(20:15) Secret sauce(s) of Morning Brew
(40:40) Pulling all-nighter for Russia-Ukraine war
(45:13) Morning Brew vs The Hustle
(46:34) Move to Payload Space
(52:48) Inflated email open rates due to Apple's privacy change
(55:35) Value for Space Industry & Government Military
(1:01:01) Interviews with Rocket Scientists & Heads of Military
(1:05:48) Drones & FAA certification
(1:10:10) Tragedy of Orbital debri
(1:19:43) 1969 Moon Landing
(1:25:34) The Wild Launch Landscape
(1:31:25) Business Models of Space
(1:35:49) Space's PR problem
(1:42:00) The best minds are thinking about how to make people click ads
(1:45:54) Kids wanna be professional YouTuber over Astronaut
(1:53:58) Hi Sean!
(1:55:17) Lunar & Mars Exploration
(2:04:11) How to break into Space Industry
TOP EPISODES
71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund
68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
"80% of the people who follow me are in for the ideas and not how beautiful they look"
Janis Ozolins is an Illustrator with over 38,000 followers on Twitter. His work have been seen by millions of people and led him to work for Naval Ravikant, Steven Bartlett, Matt D’Avella, Shaan Puri, Julian Shapiro and others.
We talk about life after school, selling his first product as a creator, and going full time into creating visuals on Twitter. He also shared advice for beginners such as what platform to pick, how to start, etc.
SPONSORS
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Recast: https://recast.studio/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
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GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OzolinsJanis
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozolinsjanis/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jaozolins
Website: https://bio.link/ozo
OUTLINE
(00:00) Life in School
(01:32) From selling bikes to becoming IT manager
(03:25) The Book that changed my life
(08:27) Living by society's default standards
(11:33) 3 people who inspired to go all-in into visuals
(15:52) Early days of growing on Twitter
(19:17) Kids help you cut all the BS in life
(22:20) 0 to 40K followers on Twitter
(26:53) 50% of the battle is to figure out what to do
(29:22) Design Inspirations from James Clear & Jack Butcher
(35:20) How to generate ideas
(39:43) A day in my life
(46:53) Mission might sound cringe, but you need it
(50:44) Landing gigs with Julian Shapiro & Shaan Puri
(56:14) Shaan Puri's Golden Framework for Creators
(01:01:52) Minimalism & Matt D'Avella
(01:06:58) My Support System
(01:12:40) Creator Economy & upcoming Artists
(01:18:02) Leveraged your Time
(01:22:39) What social media platform to focus on?
(01:25:38) Advice for Creators
TOP EPISODES
71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund
68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
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Danielle Strachman is Founder and General Partner at 1517. She was also the founding member and program director of Theil Fellowship.
We discussed about building our own school, convincing children to study, building Theil Fellowship from ground up, handing out $100k to 17-year-old kids, starting a venture capital firm, early days with founder of OYO and Figma and much more.
SPONSORS
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Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DStrachman
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellestrachman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dstrachman
OUTLINE
(0:00) Origin story
(6:55) The right way to homeschool kids
(14:38) How to build your own school
(26:05) How should parents should convince their child to study
(29:35) How did Danielle join Thiel Fellowship
(36:40) How to become a Thiel Fellow
(45:20) Superpower of Peter Thiel
(50:00) Betting on founders of OYO & Figma
(56:10) Investing in Loom
(59:40) Role of Venture Capital in today's world
(1:09:32) The Bootstrap mindset
(1:12:54) Managing ego & arrogance as VC
TOP EPISODES
68 Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62 Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
45 Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
10 Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
2 Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Johnny Dallas is the founder of Zeet. Zeet is a developer tool to help less experienced engineers easily deploy and scale their applications.
He broke into startups at 14 as a Software Engineer at Bebo (founded by Shaan Puri). A few years later, he was promoted as their Director of Operations, while still being a teenager. When Bebo got acquired by Twitch in 2019 he became the youngest engineer ever at Amazon. Then, he quit Amazon to start Zeet at 19.
We discuss his experience working with Shaan Puri, building various products, getting acquired by the biggest live streaming platform, managing high school & a full-time job & much more.
SPONSORS
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Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
OUTLINE
(0:00) Origin Story
(6:46) First day in a startup as a 14 year old
(10:40) Rapid prototyping to find the next billion dollar idea
(12:45) Managing High school & writing code for a multi-million dollar startup
(16:35) Convincing parents to drop academics
(18:02) Shaan Puri - Frameworks king
(25:10) Director of Operations at 16
(30:02) Getting acquired by Twitch (Amazon)
(34:17) Interviewing for getting acqui-hired
(36:44) Learnings from building B2C products
(51:42) Lean Team at Zeet
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_johnnydallas_
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theonlyjo...
TOP EPISODES
68 Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62 Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
45 Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
10 Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
2 Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
John Howard is the founder of Slingshot. Slingshot is a swag company that leads to more sales calls, and more shout-outs on social media.
We discuss how John sold his design agency, built Slingshot, how it evolved over the years, executing Adobe's viral Twitter campaign, bootstrapping, and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
OUTLINE
(0:00) How John sold his design agency
(9:00) How to hack the Dribbble algorithm
(15:15) What happened after John left the agency
(17:04) Built Slingshot
(23:28) Evolution
(26:33) Adobe's viral Twitter campaign
(35:22) Growth rate of Slingshot
(44:07) Most popular swag
(51:12) John’s sales experience
(01:08:28) Bootstrapping
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Natalie Brunell is a Podcast host at Coin Stories. She has over 220,000 Twitter followers and is an educator in the Bitcoin space. Her popular show, Coin Stories, features interviews with Bitcoin thought leaders about their backgrounds and conviction for BTC. She is also a video contributor to Bitcoin Magazine.
We discuss Natalie's transition from journalism to podcasting, being bullish on Bitcoin, how Bitcoin can lead us to a better world, the role of other cryptocurrencies, the future of censorship, and the adoption of cryptocurrencies due to war, and more.
SPONSORS
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Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
OUTLINE
0:00 From Bankruptcy to Bitcoin
4:45 From Journalist to a Podcaster
7:50 Why are you so passionate about BTC
9:55 Fix the World by Fixing the Money
14:15 How BTC can reduce debt & increase entrepreneurship
19:15 Role of other cryptocurrencies
21:28 The Mystery behind Satoshi Nakamoto
25:05 Social Media Censorship: When did we become so weak?
27:30 The Great Resignation
29:40 Bitcoin Conference: How she got Michael Saylor on the podcast
31:43 Wanna learn Bitcoin? Check out these resources
33:20 Bitcoin adoption due to Russia-Ukraine war
36:03 El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment
38:22 When will we start paying in Bitcoin?
40:49 Behind the scenes of Coin Stories
41:55 The Future of Podcast
43:06 Advice for Podcasters: Don't write questions!
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Evan Chen is an advisor at DropoutDAO and a former Project Lead at Google. We discuss DAOs, protocols, opportunities in Web 3, communities, the future of Web 3, and interesting conversations on Twitter.
SPONSORS
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Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
OUTLINE
(0:00) What are DAOs
(11:27) Successful examples of DAOs
(14:07) What are protocols
(15:07) Opportunities in Web 3
(24:42) Earning initial money in Web 3
(31:22) Communities
(42:30) Future of Web 3
(53:25) Interesting things on Twitter
(58:45) Big Tech companies adopting Web 3
Christopher is the founder of meTokens - allowing individuals to issue their own personal tokens. Personal tokens can be used to pay builders & creators for their work or to gain special access to their inboxes and calendar.
We talk about the history of Personal Tokens, setting up a personal DAO, experiments in this space, token-gated experiences, future of Chris's token, and more.
SPONSORS
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBobRobison
MeTokens: https://metokens.com/profile/0xa64fc17b157aaa50ac9a8341bab72d4647d0f1a7
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(00:00) - Origin story of meTokens
(7:08) - Personal Tokens will lead to a better society
(14:50) - Personal DAOs ?!?
(18:16) - Live Discord concerts
(19:54) - Experiments with Personal Tokens
(25:20) - Token-gated experiences
(27:32) - "Separation of Money and State" - E.C. Riegal
(34:26) - Aligning incentives for issuer and holder
(43:15) - Payment with meTokens
(48:05) - User Adoption
(51:34) - Future of $CBOB token
(53:26) - Revisiting Payment with meTokens
TOP EPISODES
87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Arman and Parker are the founders of Peaze - allowing you to use any dapp with just an email and credit card. A lot of cool things are being built in web3 - but most of the new users who come in are unable to use them. Users have to download a wallet, manage the private keys, on-ramp the correct crypto, swap it into the correct asset, bridge, transfer over from Coinbase, etc. Web3 user onboarding is a real problem. What if you could just sign in with your email.
SPONSORS
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArmanVaziri || https://twitter.com/Peaze
Medium: https://medium.com/@Peaze
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/arman-vaziri/ || https://www.linkedin.com/company/76595591
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(00:00) - Leaving big tech job for build in web3
(03:30) - Origin story of Peaze
(5:59) - How Peaze lowers the barrier to entry for dapps
(08:30) - What happens behind the scenes when a user signs in with Google on Peaze?
(10:00) - How Peaze secures the private keys of a user?
(11:23) - Narrowing down on the user onboarding problem
(13:49) - Is Peaze Stripe for web3?
(17:25) - User education around web3 concepts
(21:10) - North Star Metric of Peaze
(24:19) - The one-click experience
(30:53) - Helping users become self-custodian
(32:35) - DeFi is the use case for crypto
(35:12) - Market Adoption
(37:44) - The Peaze Logo
(38:40) - Raising $2m during a crypto downturn
(51:02) - Other Web3 Trends
TOP EPISODES
87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Tristen Larsen is the founder and CEO of Blockem AI, an advanced anti-scam detection software for Ethereum wallets.
We talked about how trust percentages are calculated, losing $20K in a crypto scam, origin story of Blockem, why web3 UX sucks, how their team flagged FTX wallets 2 months before the whole fiasco and much more.
SPONSORS
XMTP: https://xmtp.org/
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Suited_ETH
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suited/
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristen-larsen-%F0%9F%93%B2-1a953a114/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(00:00) - How is the Trust Percentage calculated?
(02:50) - Scams in Crypto
(4:24) - Losing $20,000 in a scam
(9:47) - Origin story of Blockem
(14:31) - Product Insights
(20:07) - Web3 UX sucks
(23:04) - What does the Trust Percentage mean?
(27:10) - Red flags in Smart Contracts
(31:39) - Ideal user experience of Blockem
(36:33) - Creative new scams in the industry
(39:00) - Flagged FTX 2 months before the whole fiasco !!
(42:54) - Story of coming up with the name
(47:11) - Remote culture
(52:31) - Reading 15 books per month
TOP EPISODES
87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Ayush Ranjan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Huddle01 - enabling open and decentralized video meetings. We talked about building Huddle01 at a hackathon, what happens behind the scenes during a video call, decentralization efforts, finding product market fit, and green crypto.
SPONSORS
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Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ranjan3118
Farcaster: @ranjan3118
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ranjan_3018/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjan18/https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjan18/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Why web3 Zoom?
(3:53) - Meeting Co-Founder
(5:46) - Building Huddle01 at a hackathon
(09:50) - Architecture Overview
(13:22) - Decentralization efforts & tradeoffs
(29:20) - Finding Product Market Fit
(37:23) - Quality vs Speed
(38:32) - Green Crypto
(40:51) - Longevity, Space & Quantum
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Pei Li is currently the co-founder of Venue, was previously the founder of CodeMode, a small development agency specializing in building MVPs. Studied at University of Toronto after that he has worked as a software engineer at Wealthsimple.
We talked about growing in an unprivileged family, taking internships at companies like IBM, raising funds, building consultation firm and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Website: https://www.venue.live/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peicodes/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Growing up in a financially poor background
(4:23) - Landing internship at IBM, Shopify & Wealthsimple
(11:41) - First shot at building startup
(15:42) - Travelling & consulting
(24:05) - Joining Venue
(26:25) - Replacing in-person conferences
(30:00) - Venue's value proposition
(37:30) - Raising $4M
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Delian Asparouhov is a principal at the Founders Fund and co-founder of Varda Space Industries, a space manufacturing startup.
We talked about juggling between a VC and founder role, the science of space manufacturing, future plans, life of a space factory worker, creating zero-gravity on Earth, hiring from SpaceX, superpower of Peter Thiel, and more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zebulgar?s=20&t=pfJTZ4FToEOJ2NY7gjAt2g
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/delian-asparouhov-87447742/
Website: https://varda.com/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Juggling between VC and founder role
(5:18) - Science of space manufacturing
(12:45) - Putting Factories in Space
(18:30) - Life of a space factory worker
(21:09) - Is zero-gravity manufacturing on Earth possible?
(27:28) - Hiring from SpaceX's Dragon team
(33:29) - Role of NASA in the space economy
(37:32) - Economic incentives in the space industry
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Sukhman & his co-founder both worked as data consultants where they helped companies understand their customers. This included analyzing consumer behavior, habits, and demographics. While in these roles they started to see the blatant disregard for consumer privacy to prioritize marketing and profits. The work they did exploited customer data and directly provided millions of dollars in value to these companies. They felt like villains at work.
This is when they started researching ways to protect their own online privacy and realized how difficult this task was. The onus was continuously on the average person to follow best practices, which often required tons of conscious effort and ruined the user experience.
This is why they came up with Cyder. Cyder is a browser extension that makes privacy, and data ownership simple, free, and accessible to everyone. Their mission has always been to create an internet where users own and get compensated for their data.
We talk about building Cyder, disregard for consumer privacy, expectation vs reality of being a founder, going viral with YC application video, and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount
GUEST LINKS
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sukhmandulay/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cyder/
Cyder: https://www.getcyder.com/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Data consulting after graduation
(4:00) - Feeling like villains at work
(13:33) - Decentralized blockchain for data security
(17:56) - Data Ethics
(22:59) - Ad desensitization
(28:35) - Origin story of Cyder
(37:08) - Expectation vs Reality of being a founder
(41:30) - Importance of having a co-founder
(44:10) - Going viral with YC application video
(46:20) - Do you still feel like a villain at work?
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Shane Mac is building a crypto-native communication protocol for web3. Similar to SMTP for email, XMTP will enable communication between existing crypto wallets via its own independent protocol and decentralized network. They have raised a $20M Series A from a16z Crypto, with participation from other popular funds and strategic angels.
We talk about the origin story of XMTP, learnings from interviewing Gary Vee, being young and lucky, writing book at 23, entrepreneurship and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shanemac
Blog: https://blog.shanemac.com/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Young and Lucky
(12:22) - Getting calmer
(18:31) - Gary Vee
(25:37) - Hosting Podcast
(30:57) - Great podcast episode
(32:08) - Heavy Conversations
(40:33) - Culture
(42:50) - Writing Book
(52:00) - Entrepreneurship
(59:06) - XMTP
(01:04:25) - Meaning of Life
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Tyler Denk led product & growth at Morning Brew, did product stint at Google and then last year, launched beehiiv - a newsletter platform empowering creators to monetize and grow like never before.
We talked about building startup in college, dropping Big 4 consulting firm to join Morning Brew, scaling newsletter to 3M subcribers, product management lessons from Google, launching beehiiv, why email newsletter is a great business and more.
SPONSORS
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Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tylerdenk_/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/denk_tweets
CONNECT
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OUTLINE
(0:00) - Building startup in college
(4:57) - Dropping Big 4 consulting firm to join Morning Brew
(9:05) - Early success of Morning Brew
(10:40) - Sending newsletter from bars & games
(14:31) - Lessons from growing newsletter to 3M subs
(17:42) - Economics of newsletter
(20:38) - The Hustle & competition
(22:28) - Morning Brew's world-class Referral Program
(27:25) - Product Management lessons from Google
(36:10) - Origin story of beehiiv
(41:28) - Why email newsletter is a great business?
(50:37) - Growth channels
(53:28) - Taking ad-share away from Facebook and Google
(56:05) - Homegrown Success Story: Milkroad.com
(58:01) - Fundraising
(58:55) - Web3
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Rachael Zisk is a journalist at Payload Space - where she covers the business and policy of space in their daily newsletter. We talk about becoming a space journalist, development of the James Webb Space Telescope, all the magnificent JWST images, instruments onboard, and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaelzisk/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RachaelZisk
CONNECT
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Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Becoming a Space Journalist
(5:40) - Background of James Webb Space Telescope
(12:45) - Instruments onboard JWST
(15:15) - Possibility of life on WASP-96B
(16:41) - Beautiful cosmic cliffs of Carina Nebula
(17:21) - How stars are born?
(19:25) - Southern Ring Nebula
(20:39) - Stephan's Quintet
(22:18) - GLASS-z13 galaxy
(26:07) - 344 Single Point of Failures
(28:47) - Deciding what to capture
(32:40) - Is money spent on space worth it?
(36:25) - JWST sustaining a micrometeoroid impact
(41:57) - New Space Science newsletter
(50:50) - Conclusion
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Arvin Khamseh is a NFT marketing expert. He has helped 400+ NFT brands sell out. One of them made $10m+ in 20 hours.
We talked about the current state of NFT market, biohacking, web3 vs web2 marketing, working with 400+ collections, and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvinkhamseh/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arvinknft
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arvinknft
Website: soldoutnfts.io
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
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OUTLINE
(0:00) - Current state of NFT market
(4:16) - Noise vs Signal in NFT conferences
(10:12) - How he got into Web3
(21:15) - How NFT marketing works
(23:27) - Marketing in Web3 vs Web2
(32:13) - Making $10M in 20 hours
(37:06) - Is sell out guaranteed?
(40:46) - Are NFTs hyped?
(45:11) - $800 for a 30 min call
(49:15) - Does good artwork or utility guarantee sell out?
(52:00) - Biohacking
(57:15) - Conclusion
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Kurtis Hanni helps business owners understand their financial statements and teaches them how to use numbers to think strategically about the business. He also runs a podcast called Frameworks & Finance.
We talk about personal finance, living with intention, content consumption, storytelling, credit cards, the Waterline Principle, and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtishanni/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KurtisHanni
Website: https://kurtishanni.com/
CONNECT
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Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Graduating in the 2008 crash
(3:11) - Should you cut your credit card?
(10:15) - The importance of learning business finance
(23:00) - Living with Intention
(25:20) - Jurassic Park movie is not about Dinosaurs
(27:55) - Increase your content consumption
(37:57) - Frameworks for Life and Business
(47:00) - Rhythms of life
(51:10) - Building 'Frameworks & Finance' Podcast
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Josh Kaplan is the Co-founder & CEO of Smooth Media where they help creators build media businesses. After graduation, he joined PwC and then, led Audio Products at Morning Brew.
We talked about getting into Morning Brew, experiences working with founders, lessons learnt from launching Business Casual podcast, origin of Smooth Media, and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-kaplan-35029b73/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JKaplan1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josh_kaplan_/
Website: https://www.smoothmedia.co/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Quitting PwC to join Morning Brew
(2:56) - Early days of Morning Brew
(4:46) - Growing Business Casual podcast to millions of downloads
(7:05) - Getting Mark Cuban on the pod
(11:09) - Origin story of Smooth Media
(13:41) - Landing Colin & Samir as first client
(17:44) - Smooth Media vs Jelly Smack
(22:52) - Trends in Creator Economy
(26:52) - Business Model of Smooth
(28:22) - Solving Tax Filing for Creators
(29:54) - Potential of Creator-led brands
(32:58) - Being Founder vs Employee
(36:40) - Creator Anxiety
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Aditi Kothari is the Product Manager of Razorpay Rize. She got into product management in an unconventional way, after randomly meeting the founder of Rapido in a cafe. Previously, she was PM at Bounce and runs a CBC (cohort-based-course) on No Code for Airtribe.
We talked about breaking into product management, landing PM role at Razorpay, the fundamental difference between Swiggy and Zomato, micro mobility strategy of Bounce, and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditi-kothari/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/aditikothari_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aditi_kothari_/
CONNECT
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OUTLINE
(0:00) - Got into Product Management after meeting a founder in cafe
(7:25) - Life as a PM
(11:24) - Strategy of Bounce during COVID
(12:19) - Cracking Razorpay
(14:31) - Interview rounds of Razorpay
(18:38) - Fundamental difference between Swiggy & Zomato
(20:50) - Impact of Razorpay Rize Program
(25:23) - Reality of No-code tools
(30:30) - Hosting CBC on No code with Airtribe
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Jeremy Moser is the Founder and CEO of USERP. He was Twitch streamer even before it was a thing, bootstrapped SEO agency from 0 to $1M with only 2 people initially and also acquired SaaS startup in 2020.
We talked about becoming an early Twitch streamer, why startups should invest early and often in SEO, agencies can be an incredible business model, acquiring SaaS startup, using Twitter for lead generation and infinite networking and much more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyamoser/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmoserr
Website: https://userp.io/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
OUTLINE
(0:00) - Becoming an early Twitch Streamer
(5:30) - Why agencies are an incredible business model
(12:40) - How brands are adapting to changing capital markets
(14:26) - Pricing wrong can be dangerous for your agency
(30:52) - Strategy of Acquiring SaaS startup in 2020
(38:47) - Using Twitter for lead generation
(42:02) - Why Twitter not LinkedIn
(45:55) - Why? Unlearn everything school taught.
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Anshul Rustaggi graduated from IIT, then IIM, worked at a hedge fund in London, came back to India, went to law school, got into the cannabis business, and now is building in web3 with Zionverse.
We discuss crypto bear markets, tokenomics, how web3 incentivizes the right behaviour, the Bible of Metaverse, why Twitter only allows 280 characters, web4 and more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anshulrustagi/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshulrustaggi/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnshulRustaggi
CONNECT
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OUTLINE
(0:00) - Crypto Bear Market
(11:14) - What kicked off Bear Market
(18:32) - Stablecoin is gateway to mass crypto adoption
(24:50) - Wikipedia should adopt cryptocurrency
(27:44) - Web3 incentivizes the right behaviour
(31:53) - Zionverse 101
(39:29) - Why Metaverse will be Mobile-driven not VR-driven
(46:07) - Why do they hand out "Snow Crash" to every new team member
(49:47) - Building a Web3 company
(01:01:35) - Roadmap of Zionverse
(01:05:48) - Why do we play Teen Patti on Diwali
(01:08:46) - Web4 ?!?!?!
(01:13:43) - Video games are extremely valuable for Kids
(01:20:51) - Future
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Tibo started his career selling TVs and now makes $1M in ARR from his Twitter growth tool, TweetHunter.
We talk about learnings from the first startup, shipping a product every 2 weeks, success of TweetHunter, acquiring initial users, finding a co-founder, making $1M ARR, and more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tibo_maker
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thibaultll/
OUTLINE
(0:00) Selling TVs
(2:32) First Startup: Motivating Kids to do chores
(9:50) Shipping a product every 2 weeks
(14:59) Success of TweetHunter
(19:26) Acquiring Initial Users & Finding Co-founder on Twitter
(25:20) How to validate idea
(28:18) Importance of building audience for Founders
(34:55) Marketing your side projects
(36:49) Making $1M ARR from TweetHunter
(40:45) The viral TweetHunter Challenge
(43:48) Replicating TweetHunter Success on LinkedIn
TOP EPISODES
77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Sang Le, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Shashank Kumar is co-founder of Razorpay - a $7.5B fintech giant in India. He graduated from IIT Roorkee, worked at Microsoft in Seattle, was driving Mustang, and still felt he could do more. So he flew back to India and built a unicorn.
We talked about life post-graduation, living in US, convincing dad to move back to India, early days of Razorpay, getting into YC, imposter syndrome, and much more.
SPONSORS
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Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shashank_kr
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumarshashank/
CONNECT
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OUTLINE
(0:00) Driving Mustang at 22
(4:58) Life in US post IIT
(9:02) Origin of Razorpay
(15:03) Dad's reaction to coming back home
(18:06) Finding Product-Market Fit
(21:20) How Y Combinator took growth to another level
(26:21) Paid 25 lacs to get a Payment Gateway License
(30:20) Imposter Syndrome
(34:51) Hiring first 10 employees
(38:53) The story behind the name 'Razorpay'
(40:43) RBI driving innovation in the Indian fintech ecosystem
(43:08) Living with co-founder even today
(44:57) Future of Tier 3 & Tier 4 cities
(48:12) Philosophy of Money
(52:07) Day in Life as CTO of a unicorn
(54:13) Razorpay's Web3 strategy
(56:45) Reverse Brain Drain
(1:02:56) Dad's Reaction today [MUST WATCH]
TOP EPISODES
75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google [Hindi]
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Jenna Hannon is the Founder at Supermassiv. She led marketing at Uber Eats and is now building Supermassiv to help artists make real money.
We talk about teaching kitesurfing to Elon Musk, how the new CEO changed the culture at Uber, making money with NFTs as a musician, having lunch with Val Kilmer, and more.
SPONSORS
BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital
Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JennaHannon
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennahannon/
Website: https://jennahannon.com/
AngelList: https://angel.co/p/jenna-hannon
OUTLINE
(0:00) Teaching Elon Musk how to Kitesurf
(4:02) Email to new Uber CEO
(6:19) How new CEO changed the culture at Uber
(10:14) Why quit Uber
(12:01) Origin story of Supermassiv
(14:35) State of Music Industry
(21:45) How TikTok changed Music
(25:32) Getting into Crypto back in 2011
(30:54) What's wrong with NFTs
(33:52) Most creative NFTs
(36:45) How Artists can make money with NFTs
(40:59) How Supermassiv works
(47:45) What's Web 2.5 ??
(48:40) The Supermassiv Vision
(54:53) Lunch with Val Kilmer
TOP EPISODES
71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund
68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Kyla is an independent, Gen Z friendly, new-age content creator with a fantastic newsletter and YouTube channel. She wrote her first book “The Little Penguin” in third grade, started options trading at 16, sold cars in college, garnered ~130k followers on TikTok with her finance skits and working with top brands like Morning Brew & Bankless. She's also building a fintech startup in stealth (launching soon).
We talk about doing options trading at 16, selling cars in college, the right time to publish on Tiktok, monetary policies, sneak peek into her startup, and more.
SPONSORS
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Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kylascan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylascanlon/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylascan/
Website: https://kylascanlon.com/
Newsletter: https://kyla.substack.com/
OUTLINE
(0:00) Options Trading at 16
(2:54) How Options Trading works?
(5:38) Selling over $1M worth of cars in college
(9:41) Writing book in 3rd grade
(10:35) Content Creation
(14:29) Power of TikTok
(19:16) What is the right time to post on TikTok?
(20:43) The Fed, Monetary Policies & Inflation
(25:33) It's a good time to Buy
(27:49) Bullish on Metaverse?
(33:57) Building Financial Education Company
(34:27) Day in a Life
(38:30) Closing first sponsorship deal w/ Morning Brew
(40:12) Is Venture Capital a Ponzi Scheme?
(42:57) Web4???
(45:10) Elon vs Twitter
(47:18) Cheat Codes for Creators
TOP EPISODES
71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund
68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Adam Jackson is the co-founder of Braintrust - the largest decentralized talent marketplace. Braintrust’s mission is to build the world’s most impactful talent network — one that is user-owned, aligns incentives, and redistributes value to Talent and Organizations. Previously, Adam founded 4 VC-backed companies, sold 2 of them, and is an angel investor in 100+ companies.
We talk about Web2 vs Web3 marketplaces, building a successful governance model, mechanics of DAO, freelance economy, message for Web3 critics, and much more.
SPONSORS
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Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant
Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/
Recast: https://recast.studio/
CONNECT
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
GUEST LINKS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamjacksonsf
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajackson/
Website: http://www.usebraintrust.com/
Portfolio: https://angel.co/p/adamjackson
OUTLINE
(0:00) Built 4 companies, sold 2 of them
(1:31) Solving the Chicken & Egg problem of Marketplaces
(4:07) "Dirty little secret" of Web2 Marketplaces
(7:43) Venture Capital as a forcing function that leads to fee extraction
(9:33) First encounter with Blockchain
(10:49) BTRST as a Governance Token
(12:52) Is Braintrust a DAO?
(14:16) What happens when DAO members don't execute a proposal
(16:49) What's working, what's not working
(19:55) Role of a DAO Founder
(21:18) Value of a Token
(22:51) What happens when VCs hold a lot of tokens
(23:54) Growing from 0 to 700,000 members during the pandemic
(25:32) Convincing Nike, Goldman Sachs & other Web2 co's to get onboard
(28:12) Hiring remotely & globally
(30:07) How the freelance economy is helping corporate America
(33:07) Vetting new Talent
(35:05) Coordinating 100+ developers to build DAO
(41:19) How many tokens does Adam own?
(42:00) Crypto Twitter
(46:24) Are you buying the dip?
(46:49) Message for Web3 Critics
TOP EPISODES
71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund
68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Ryan Duffy is the Founding Editor of Payload Space, a digital media outfit covering the business and policy of space. Previously, he worked at Morning Brew where he launched their second product, Emerging Tech Brew. Over three years Ryan was at the Brew, the newsletter grew to a subscriber base of 300,000+, all while maintaining industry-leading open rates.
We talk about getting detained by the UN in Haiti, time at Morning Brew, scaling Emerging Tech Brew from 0 to 300K readers and a lot of space meta trends.
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OUTLINE
(0:00) Getting detained by the United Nations in Haiti
(3:26) Not setting a predetermined path for yourself
(8:34) Solo creator vs traditional media
(11:21) Deciding to Write Full-time
(17:13) Getting into Morning Brew with a Facebook Event description
(20:15) Secret sauce(s) of Morning Brew
(40:40) Pulling all-nighter for Russia-Ukraine war
(45:13) Morning Brew vs The Hustle
(46:34) Move to Payload Space
(52:48) Inflated email open rates due to Apple's privacy change
(55:35) Value for Space Industry & Government Military
(1:01:01) Interviews with Rocket Scientists & Heads of Military
(1:05:48) Drones & FAA certification
(1:10:10) Tragedy of Orbital debri
(1:19:43) 1969 Moon Landing
(1:25:34) The Wild Launch Landscape
(1:31:25) Business Models of Space
(1:35:49) Space's PR problem
(1:42:00) The best minds are thinking about how to make people click ads
(1:45:54) Kids wanna be professional YouTuber over Astronaut
(1:53:58) Hi Sean!
(1:55:17) Lunar & Mars Exploration
(2:04:11) How to break into Space Industry
TOP EPISODES
71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund
68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Janis Ozolins is an Illustrator with over 38,000 followers on Twitter. His work have been seen by millions of people and led him to work for Naval Ravikant, Steven Bartlett, Matt D’Avella, Shaan Puri, Julian Shapiro and others.
We talk about life after school, selling his first product as a creator, and going full time into creating visuals on Twitter. He also shared advice for beginners such as what platform to pick, how to start, etc.
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/OzolinsJanis
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozolinsjanis/
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Website: https://bio.link/ozo
OUTLINE
(00:00) Life in School
(01:32) From selling bikes to becoming IT manager
(03:25) The Book that changed my life
(08:27) Living by society's default standards
(11:33) 3 people who inspired to go all-in into visuals
(15:52) Early days of growing on Twitter
(19:17) Kids help you cut all the BS in life
(22:20) 0 to 40K followers on Twitter
(26:53) 50% of the battle is to figure out what to do
(29:22) Design Inspirations from James Clear & Jack Butcher
(35:20) How to generate ideas
(39:43) A day in my life
(46:53) Mission might sound cringe, but you need it
(50:44) Landing gigs with Julian Shapiro & Shaan Puri
(56:14) Shaan Puri's Golden Framework for Creators
(01:01:52) Minimalism & Matt D'Avella
(01:06:58) My Support System
(01:12:40) Creator Economy & upcoming Artists
(01:18:02) Leveraged your Time
(01:22:39) What social media platform to focus on?
(01:25:38) Advice for Creators
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Danielle Strachman is Founder and General Partner at 1517. She was also the founding member and program director of Theil Fellowship.
We discussed about building our own school, convincing children to study, building Theil Fellowship from ground up, handing out $100k to 17-year-old kids, starting a venture capital firm, early days with founder of OYO and Figma and much more.
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Origin story
(6:55) The right way to homeschool kids
(14:38) How to build your own school
(26:05) How should parents should convince their child to study
(29:35) How did Danielle join Thiel Fellowship
(36:40) How to become a Thiel Fellow
(45:20) Superpower of Peter Thiel
(50:00) Betting on founders of OYO & Figma
(56:10) Investing in Loom
(59:40) Role of Venture Capital in today's world
(1:09:32) The Bootstrap mindset
(1:12:54) Managing ego & arrogance as VC
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Top Episodes:
68 Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62 Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
45 Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
10 Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
2 Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
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Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Johnny Dallas is the founder of Zeet. Zeet is a developer tool to help less experienced engineers easily deploy and scale their applications.
He broke into startups at 14 as a Software Engineer at Bebo (founded by Shaan Puri). A few years later, he was promoted as their Director of Operations, while still being a teenager. When Bebo got acquired by Twitch in 2019 he became the youngest engineer ever at Amazon. Then, he quit Amazon to start Zeet at 19.
We discuss about his experience working with Shaan Puri, building various products, getting acquired by biggest livestreaming platform, managing high school & full-time job & much more.
Timestamps:
(0:00) Origin Story
(6:46) First day in a startup as a 14 year old
(10:40) Rapid prototyping to find the next billion dollar idea
(12:45) Managing High school & writing code for a multi-million dollar startup
(16:35) Convincing parents to drop academics
(18:02) Shaan Puri - Frameworks king
(25:10) Director of Operations at 16
(30:02) Getting acquired by Twitch (Amazon)
(34:17) Interviewing for getting acqui-hired
(36:44) Learnings from building B2C products
(51:42) Lean Team at Zeet
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theonlyjohnny/
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Top Episodes:
68 Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin
62 Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan
45 Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks
10 Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)
2 Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)
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Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
John Howard is the founder of Slingshot. Slingshot is a swag company that leads to more sales calls, and more shout-outs on social media.
We discuss how John sold his design agency, built Slingshot, how it evolved over the years, executing Adobe's viral Twitter campaign, bootstrapping, and much more.
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Timestamps:
(0:00) How John sold his design agency
(9:00) How to hack the Dribbble algorithm
(15:15) What happened after John left the agency
(17:04) Build Slingshot
(23:28) How Slingshot grew up
(26:33) Adobe's Viral Twitter campaign
(35:22) Growth rate of Slingshot
(44:07) Most popular swag
(51:12) John’s sales experience
(01:08:28) Bootstrapping
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Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Natalie Brunell is the host of Coin Stories Podcast. She is also an educator & media commentator in the Bitcoin space. Her popular show, Coin Stories, features interviews with Bitcoin thought leaders about their backgrounds and conviction for BTC. She is also a video contributor to Bitcoin Magazine.
We discuss Natalie's transition from journalism to podcasting, being bullish on Bitcoin, how Bitcoin can lead us to a better world, the role of other cryptocurrencies, the future of censorship, the adoption of cryptocurrencies due to war, and more.
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Timestamps:
(0:35) Origin Story
(4:50) From Journalism to Podcasting
(7:50) Developing passion for Bitcoin
(9:55) Fix the World by Fixing the Money
(14:15) How Bitcoin can lead us to a better world
(19:15) Role of other Cryptocurrencies
(25:05) Future of Censorship
(27:30) Great Resignation
(29:40) Natalie's Bitcoin Conference experience
(33:20) Adoption of Cryptocurrencies due to war
(38:22) When will people start paying for stuff in Bitcoin
(41:55) Behind the scenes & future of Coin Stories
Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.
Victoria Young is the Co-Founder of Scale Higher. She has worked for a number of Big Tech Giants in the past, including Google, Meta, Netflix, Spotify, and others.
We discuss learnings from an MBA school, how to manage yourself, hiring, how Victoria grows Scale Higher, getting a promotion vs switching a company, and more
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Timestamps:
(0:31) Introduction
(3:32) Learnings from an MBA School
(22:46) How to manage yourself
(24:22) How Victoria grows Scale Higher
(29:44) Hiring
(31:35) Getting a Promotion vs Switching a Company
(40:33) Reasons which are blocking people to succeed at work
(47:50) Meditation
(50:30) Product Market Fit
Evan Chen is an advisor at DropoutDAO and a former Project Lead at Google
We discuss what are DAOs, what are protocols, opportunities in Web 3, communities, the future of Web 3, interesting things on twitter
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Timestamps:
(0:30) What are DAOs
(11:27) Successful examples of DAOs
(14:07) What are protocols
(15:07) Opportunities in Web 3
(24:42) Earning initial money in Web 3
(31:22) Communities
(42:30) Future of Web 3
(53:25) Interesting things on Twitter
(58:45) Big Tech companies adopting Web 3
Michael Kliska is Co-Founder & CEO of New Matter, which is the premier men's personal care provider.
We discuss New Matter’s Competition, convincing judges, outsourcing vs hiring, starting a new brand, branding, and many more.
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Timestamps:
(0:28) Introduction
(06:02) New Matter’s Competition
(08:19) Convincing Judges
(18:00) Outsourcing vs Hiring
(31:24) Starting the new brand (New Matter)
(47:30) Should we use ordinary skincare products
(52:54) Education Space for skincare
(1:05:01) Branding
(1:13:48) The story behind the name (New Matter)
William Zhang is an upcoming student at Harvard University. He is interested in AI, Blockchain, API's & Research.
We discussed, how he got into Harvard, Bootstrapping vs VCs, Research vs Industry, the dark side of research space, side projects & many more.
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Timestamps:
(0:32) How William get into Harvard University
(06:36) Starting your own startup vs Joining as a founding member
(22:27) Bootstrapping vs VC’s
(23:47) Research vs Industry
(26:10) Dark side of Research Space
(32:10) Web 3.0
(45:29) Twitter vs LinkedIn
(53:38) Side Projects
Justin Jia is the founder & CEO of Project Unicorn. He formerly worked at Blizzard Entertainment as a Project Coordinator.
We talk about the concept of project unicorns, hiring people, angel investing trends on Twitter, tax implications, deployment of funds, value of a traditional economics degree & more.
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Timestamps:
(0:32) Concept of Project Unicorn (Tik Tok like app for investors)
(13:25) Angel Investment
(15:38) Hiring people
(23:48) Angel Investing trends on Twitter
(28:30) Tax implications
(42:45) Deployment of funds
(47:30) Value of traditional economics degree
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Suumit Shah is the founder of Dukaan, that enables merchants to set up online stores and sell products digitally
We talk about building a fast-growing startup during pandemic, how Dukaan enables merchants to scale, the Shark Tank India effect, working culture, Indian startup ecosystem, SEO & more.
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Timestamps:
(0:32) Building a fast-growing startup during pandemic
(13:52) Suumit's take on WhatsApp Business
(18:31) How Dukaan helps in scaling SMEs
(21:17) The Shark Tank India effect
(26:38) Working Culture
(28:53) Hiring Strategy
(32:09) Expansion Plans
(39:35) College Experiences
(45:10) Entry into the Indian Startup ecosystem
(48:25) The SEO Game
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Linda Ahn is a Product Designer at Scotiabank Digital Factory. She runs her own YouTube channel, where she makes videos on UX/Product Design, Lifestyle & career. We talk about Linda’s career switch from medical to design, her side projects, good financial habits, future plans for content creation & more.
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Timestamps:
(0:32) Career switch from Medical to Design
(16:55) Side Projects
(21:28) Building network
(32:59) Financial habits
(38:08) Social media usage
(42:55) Future plans for content creation
(50:10) How Linda get into pottery
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Kaivalya Gandhi is Senior PM at Yahoo Mail & ex Co-Founder of EPOCH. Kaivalya is an impact-driven technologist passionate about bringing ideas to life. We talk about Kaivalya’s story of EPOCH, How did Kaivalya validate his idea, How EPOCH get contracts from Big Giants (Slack & Reddit), Kaivalya’s biggest learning lessons, and more.
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Timestamps:
(0:32) Kaivalya’s story of EPOCH
(5:46)How did Kaivalya validate his idea
(9:55) How EPOCH get contracts from Big Giants (Slack & Reddit)
(18:27) Kaivalya’s biggest learning lessons
(49:27) Tools used by Kaivalya
(52:48) Kaivalya’s take on climate change
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Udit Akhouri is the Co-founder of Aentor and Sttabot. He is a young entrepreneur who has built & scaled multiple ventures. We talk about Udit’s startup journey, how Udit hires & builds team, how one should raise funds in the right way, and more.
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Timestamps:
(0:32) Udit’s startup story
(19:25) Hiring & building team
(34:34) How one should raise funds in the right way
(50:25) Starting StreakCap Ventures
(58:33) How to find potential products that have a need in the market
(1:07:39) Plan in NFT space
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Chirag Taneja is the Co-Founder & CEO of GoKwik which boosts e-commerce conversions & reduces RTO. We talk about Chirag’s journey of Food-Tech Startup, Large vs Small Companies, How Shark Tank India helped GoKwik, Hybrid working culture in GoKwik, and more.
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Timestamps:
(0:58) Funny story of how Biryani is not Pulav
(2:01) Chirag’s journey of Food-Tech Startup
(6:34) How difficult it is to run a Food/Restaurant Business
(9:45) Large vs Small Companies
(21:48) How Shark Tank India helped GoKwik
(26:27) Cash on delivery & Return to Origin (RTO) problems in India
(36:33) Upcoming D2C firms with bright futures
(48:05) Hybrid working culture in GoKwik
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Xavier Coiffard is the Founder of XVRC Startup studio & Indie Hacker in the challenge of building 6 products in 6 months. We talk about building multiple products, how to build a sustainable community, why marketing is important, Twitter growth strategy, and more.
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Timestamps:
(0:32): Why build multiple products
(05:56) : How to validate Ideas
(13:28): Xavier’s motivation behind building 6 products in 6 months
(20:13): How to build a sustainable community
(33:44): Why Marketing is really important
(41:40): Twitter growth strategy
(50:09) : Xavier’s future goals for his products
(51:32) : Productivity & Wellness
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Dima is a Co-Founder at Pandatron; a startup that supports change management through the use of AI and chatbots. He talks about his startup adventure, what got him into training and how change has played such a pivotal role in his life so far.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) The Pandatron Story
(03:22) Funding isn’t unidimensional
(12:00) Clarity of vision
(22:20) Who are you selling to?
(26:12) Dima’s experience with bigwigs
(36:12) How people learn
(40:24) How to plan your day
(42:20) Change and it’s management
(48:30) What next for Pandatron?
(56:08) Self-Awareness
(01:04:04) Importance of feedback
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Mia and Roshni are co-founders at GOmana, a virtual travel agency that helps students find, apply and plan for their abroad experience. In this episode, Mia talks about her immigrant experience in Canada, Roshini talks about being first in family to get a university degree, why it’s important to know your co-founders outside of work and how the transition from art to tech is very possible now.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) How Mia and Roshni met
(02:57) The Immigrant Experience
(08:50) From Roommates to Co-Founders
(15:10) What do they love about each other
(20:20) Transitioning from Art to Tech
(25:50) The road not taken.
(27:50) How GOmana happened
(36:20) When to look for a Co-Founder
(40:04) Future plans for GOmana
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Pratyush is the founder of Foyer, a startup focused on building tools to simplify meetings . He is an alumni of IIT Kanpur and was an associate at BCG. In this episode, we speak about unique customers, choosing the problem to solve and when to stop businesses.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) Foyer's Origin Story
(11:48) Building unique customers
(14:21) Learnings from BCG
(17:45) Choosing the problem to solve
(29:36) Uptick in Fashion sense
(36:12) Closing down fashion idea
(44:58) Pivoting to org tools
(50:18) Jira and organizational tools
(01:00:17) Mighty Browser
(01:06:10) Interesting things on Twitter
(01:10:09) Theranos Trial
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Divyanshu Agarwal, a graduate of IIT Bhilai, currently works in Snazzy, a Y-Combinator funded startup as a growth manager. In this episode, we talk about his time at IIT, how to market effectively and the importance of building personal brands.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) Divyanshu’s time at IIT.
(14:40) Beyond academics.
(19:00) Work culture at MNCs vs startups
(23:30) Why marketing?
(28:50) Airrack and influencing strategies.
(31:15) Marketing tips from Divyanshu
(38:05) The importance of gratitude.
(40:15) Learnings from work (Snazzy)
(1:04:00) Exploring twitter.
(1:17:30) Personal branding.
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Ned Nadima is the founder of Friska Labs, an open, programmable ledger for biomarkers. In this episode we speak about longevity tech, research in the space, Ned's startup and much more! Tune in to find out.
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(00:32) Big Lie of aging
(06:06) Achieving longevity
(10:18) Implications of living longer
(22:46) Longevity research
(29:29) Recreating mammoths
(31:57) OnDeck fellowship
(34:08) Commerce to longevity tech
(39:05) Friska Labs
(49:34) Behind the idea
(56:40) Future of healthcare
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Ch Daniel is the founder of Legitcheck.app, an online service to check the authenticity of resale products. He scaled it to $22.5k per month. In this episode, we talk about how he built a business doing over $20k a month in revenue, micro-acquisitions, the sneaker industry and much more!
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Timestamps:
(00:32) How Legit Check started
(04:07) The Sneaker Industry
(06:52) Growth of Legit Check
(15:57) Before going full-time
(20:10) How Search Helped
(23:08) Emojics.com and its acquisition
(30:56) Micro-acquisitions
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Vinay Katiyar is the founder of Leadder. We talk about growing Twitter following, launching an outreach agency, profitable SEO businesses, hiring, making money on Twitter and more.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) Twitter Growth
(09:56) Growing Outreach agency from 0 to $10K MRR in 17 days
(17:03) Future of Agency
(23:38) Building niche profitable businesses
(38:16) Blackhat SEO
(44:29) Margins in Agency Business
(46:15) Hiring
(55:55) Making money on Twitter
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Mehul Fanawala is the founder of The Clueless Company. We talk about adapting to the new world at the start of the pandemic, resigning, figuring out what’s next, sales, building systems, follow-ups and Twitter.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) From Employee to Founder during Covid
(09:07) Managing Productivity at home
(13:06) Origin of Clueless Company
(33:59) "If you want to make a sale, never sell"
(37:03) Building Systems
(41:38) Becoming Follow up Ninja
(55:12) Going viral on Twitter
(01:09:19) The Clueless Investor
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Anan Batra is Founder and CEO of Listnr.tech and Listnr.fm - end-to-end podcasting platform. We talk about competitors, podcasting consumption trends, team building, launching lifetime deal, initial user feedback, SEO, Twitter and more.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) Why Entrepreneurship
(03:18) Origin of Listnr.tech
(06:28) Competitors
(09:56) Podcast Trends
(17:47) Starting Company Podcast
(22:22) Building team of interns
(26:46) Launching Lifetime Deal
(30:45) Adblocker's crazy story
(32:10) Initial User Feedback
(34:25) Launch Day Sales
(37:18) Current Team
(40:54) My First Million Podcast
(45:50) Building SEO
(48:13) Twitter
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Jan-Philipp Peters is the founder of BitsForDigits.com - a marketplace for founders seeking partial buyouts. We talk about the recent launch, attending college abroad, finance, big tech, startup, no-code, user acquisition, Twitter, and more.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) Product Hunt Launch
(03:22) Attending College in Bali, Sweden, Germany and Denmark
(06:30) Getting into Finance
(07:32) Working at Google & Facebook
(10:58) Origin of BitsForDigits
(13:48) No-code Stack
(15:18) Why Partial Buyout Platform
(19:51) When Founders sell shares
(23:07) Why users are anonymized
(25:20) User Acquisition
(30:08) Twitter
(32:29) Growth Strategy
(33:55) Current businesses on the Platform
(35:50) Legal Process
(37:50) Web3
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Aditya is an early member of The Product Folks - the largest volunteer-driven product management community. He also built Grab Chai over a weekend which has now hosted over 20K+ conversations. We talk about studying marketing, building his first startup, joining TPF, product management, Grab Chai, Twitter, and more.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) Studying marketing in college
(3:38) Building WordKrowd
(15:59) Joining The Product Folks
(22:18) What aspirants get wrong about PM?
(28:50) Day of an effective PM
(37:21) Building Grabchai over a weekend
(46:16) Other side projects
(52:17) Writing
(59:11) Twitter-verse
(1:10:04) Jira alternative
(1:11:27) Fun Side Project
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Suhas is the founder of The Product Folks - one of the largest volunteer-driven product management communities. He is also building Indistractable - a minimalist Android Launcher that helps you focus. We talk about cold-emailing, landing job in Europe, product management, building TPF, productivity, Twitter, NFT, Web3 and more.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) Why is everyone congratulating Suhas right now
(1:52) Cold-emailing product leaders
(8:27) Landing product role at PepsiCo in Europe
(11:07) Origin story of The Product Folks
(16:42) Why Product Management?
(19:43) Finding Product Market Fit at TPF
(23:56) Building a massive volunteer team
(31:06) Backstage conversations with Product Leaders
(38:02) New Initiatives at TPF
(40:49) Define Product Manager
(43:10) Origin story of Indistractable
(46:28) Choosing Growth PM vertical
(49:24) Future of Indistractable
(53:03) Benefits of building an Android Launcher
(54:28) Productivity & Philosophy
(58:46) Twitter Usage
(01:01:19) Making friends on Twitter
(01:04:20) NFTs
(01:08:08) Interesting Web3 Projects
(01:09:25) Shark Tank India
(01:10:23) Building-Distribution balance
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Brian Wu is an Associate at Romulus Capital, CEO at Vetol Drone, and studying CS at Stanford. We talk about starting college at Stanford in 2020, building a ventilator, building a drone delivery startup, venture capital, space tech, and some half-baked ideas.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) Starting college at Stanford in 2020
(02:15) Building Ventilator at the start of the pandemic
(06:16) Building drone delivery startup for medical relief
(15:26) Getting into Venture Capital
(24:24) Laser Focus on Construction Technology
(32:51) Space Tech
(47:07) Twitter-verse
(50:46) Half-baked Startup Ideas
(57:23) Social Media Usage
(59:28) Meta (Previously Facebook Company)
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Mia is Business Operations Associate at The Knowledge Society (TKS) and Co-founder at GOmana. We talk about deciding to study abroad, building GOmana, working at TKS, philosophies, Section 4, Twitter and more.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) Being a Plant Mom
(01:38) Coming from Vietnam to Canada
(07:37) Culture Shock
(10:21) Origin story of GOmana
(19:01) Future of GOmana
(23:41) Working at The Knowledge Society
(29:10) Philosophical concepts
(42:28) Taking Section 4 program from Scott Galloway
(52:56) Twittter-verse
(59:18) TKS Twitter challenge
(01:02:05) Best decision in the past one year
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Mo started his career in Wall Street, where he conducted research in the space industry and then, started Payload Space to cover the new innovations in space. We talk about the space hype, US vs China, Elon Musk, solving space debris and more.
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Timestamps:
00:32 Origin Story of Space Newsletter
03:49 Why Space
06:19 Why the space hype
11:20 How vertical integration brought costs down
13:45 Did Elon Musk single-handedly accelerate space industry
17:58 US vs China space industry
20:51 Angel Investing in space
24:52 Space business model to look out for
28:17 Module misfiring in International Space Station
30:22 Solving space debris
32:42 New grads working in space companies
36:12 Future of Payload
42:51 Benefit of space research
46:13 Content Business Model
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Peer is Co-founder and Co-CEO at Cal where he is building an open-source scheduling infrastructure. We talk about buying Cal domain name, selling his previous startup to On Deck, benefits of opensource and the future of calendar.
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Timestamps:
(0:32) Buying a 3-letter domain name Cal.com
(5:24) Why Calendly needed to be open-sourced
(7:07) Selling Lean Hire to On Deck
(9:51) Origin story of Lean Hire
(11:50) Favourite On Deck Programs
(13:34) Validating product
(16:09) Key Learnings from previous startups
(20:25) Benefits of Opensource product
(22:40) Development by Cal vs by opensource community
(24:07) When Cal transitioned from side project to real company
(25:45) Finding product-market fit
(27:45) Target Market
(28:41) Top Challenge
(29:43) Future of Cal
(32:01) Advice for first-time founders
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Justin is the founder of Declassified Media where he provides career education to college students for free. We talk about podcasting, LinkedIn, career cheat codes, TikTok, community, Web3 and more.
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Timestamps:
(0:32) Origin Story - Starting GetChoGrindUp
(2:22) Why Podcast
(3:33) Creating Content on LinkedIn
(9:19) LinkedIn Inspiration
(12:26) Quick story involving founder of Twitch
(14:28) Ups and Downs with the first podcast
(18:51) Building Declassified
(21:29) Choosing Career education
(25:33) Favourite cheat codes for college
(29:00) Career Advice is easy
(33:20) Growing TikTok to 250K followers
(38:58) Community > Content
(43:14) Networking for non-drinkers
(45:20) Declassified Team structure
(47:13) Podcast Editing
(51:17) Spending $3000 on a podcast ad
(53:41) Process of every Declassification Episode
(59:44) Content Bubbles on the web
(1:04:07) Creator Economy (Mr. Beast, Khaby Lame, Gary Vee)
(1:09:03) Web3 (NFT, Career Advice, Learn to Earn, Content Creators, DAO, VC)
(1:21:20) NFT Scholarship Idea
(1:25:18) NFT for a Women Accessories Brand
(1:29:01) Product that automates Content Creation and Distribution
(1:35:05) Work from home setup designer
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Prashant has been consistently putting up content for 1200+ days. We talk about high school struggle, 1200+ writing streak, philosophy, hosting Todcast, daily routine, finding job through Twitter, and more.
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Timestamps:
(0:32) Life during and after high school
(19:26) Starting a writing streak to impress a girl
(23:20) Choosing topics to write on
(26:23) Thoughts on Philosophy
(27:49) Life principles
(31:43) Process for content creation
(34:31) Twitter
(37:11) Creating Todcast on Twitter
(40:38) Viral Posts
(43:15) Daily Routine
(51:08) Sleep Habits
(53:02) Social Media Usage
(57:41) Building momentum of doing things everyday
(59:09) Finding job through Twitter
(1:04:58) Best Productivity Trick
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We talk about getting a $100K scholarship, software projects, Twitter, time management, AR/VR and more.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) Getting $100K scholarship
(3:31) Raising $200K for non-profit
(7:16) High School experience
(10:37) Choosing System Design Engineering
(11:48) Ideal Job
(18:01) Last movie that made us cry
(20:08) Building Reflect chrome extension
(27:11) Shitposting on Twitter
(29:28) Getting into Contrary Capital
(30:45) Time management
(36:17) Indian Entrepreneurship Scene
(41:07) Industries ripe for disruption
(43:59) Strategy Course
(44:56) Jam3 and AR/VR
(50:18) NFT and web3
(56:56) Gig economy
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We talk about YouTube, auto-immune disorders, antibody research, philosophies, giving back and more.
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Timestamps:
(00:32) Landing job at Jemi
(07:24) People are more important than product
(09:40) Starting YouTube channel and creating accountability
(16:20) Invest in things you frequently use
(18:36) Life in high school playing jazz and basketball
(20:40) Dealing with two auto-immune disorders
(33:19) Diving into heathcare and biology
(39:18) Research on multimerized antibody platform
(44:24) Antibody production
(47:37) Making science accessible
(54:10) Philosophy
(1:00:42) Being efficient and daily schedule
(1:04:59) Giving back
(1:10:05) Just do it
(1:11:39) Getting more people involved in biology at young age
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We talk about Michael's first startup, building BioDojo, interesting concepts in biology, Twitter strategy and much more.
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Timestamps:
(0:32) Building WissenUp at 15
(4:46) Did people want WissenUp?
(6:27) Deciding to study Biology
(10:57) Building BioDojo
(15:05) First iteration of BioDojo
(19:08) When online communities get too big
(25:49) Immunology from a lens of decision-making
(29:45) RNA sequencing
(30:52) How mRNA helps decide the structure of a cell
(36:27) Loyal - Longevity Tech Startup
(40:10) Longevity Tech
(44:58) Gut-Brain Access
(50:31) Secret to a healthy gut
(52:24) Biohacking
(55:13) Life at University of Toronto
(58:38) The problem of finding funds for Academic Research
(1:04:50) Value of Twitter
(1:15:12) Future of Discord
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We talk about networking on LinkedIn, cold email formats, getting LinkedIn Premium free for 6 months, benefits of LinkedIn Premium, Amazon Prime vs Spotify, Google One subscription, photography, Google Photos, Google Maps Local Guide, iPhone 13, staycation in Manali, Moonshot House, future of crypto, royalty structure in NFTs, UPI framework, robo-investing, financial education, Twitter vs Reddit, content overload, Algorithms to Live By and more.
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We talk all about NFTs, value of community, cool NFT projects, types of NFT projects, long term roadmap of Bored Ape Yacht Club, royalty structure, use cases for celebrities, how Disney can leverage NFT model, concert tickets as NFTs, physical goods as NFTs, future of Loot Project, crypto taxes, Loot Project might look something similar to Roblox, NFT model for gaming companies, why can you only transact with Ethereum, pros & cons of NFT craze, what is something people should be talking about and more.
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We talk about getting into podcasting, organizing university life on Notion, finding her initial podcast guests, thought process behind editing her podcast, picking Civil Engineering program, Sidewalk Labs, smart cities, urban technology, sustainability, curb management startup, social media usage, benefits of being on Tech Twitter, NFT, Loot Project, best resources to follow for civil engineering and more.
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We talk about Parth's journey getting into UC Berkeley, lessons from university experience, building a Strava competitor as a teenager, project-based courses as a way to improve university education, building a product to improve the party life of Berkeley, prepping for Y Combinator, landing Twitter internship, culture at Twitter, advice for interviewing at big tech, intentionally creating a Twitter bubble, toxic culture of Instagram, fulfillment, Whiteboard Crypto, blockchain, trends in NFT world, DeFi and more.
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We talk about Mo's first stint with entrepreneurship, selling mobile accessories in high school, key learnings from the First Founders program, venture scouting for AWS startups, responsibilities of a venture scout, joining Y Combinator startup as a Growth intern, advice to become a venture scout, interviewing for venture scout programs, Loyal - longevity biotech startup, why can't we live forever, what impact would living longer have on the society, world wonders, Flipkart mafia, Tiger Global's investments in India, Pakistan's thriving startup scene, backcasting - a startup strategy, Loot Project - the most interesting thing on Tech Twitter right now, future of NFTs and much more. Follow Prashant: www.takeme.to/prashant Follow Mo: Twitter: https://twitter.com/momahmo13 LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/momahmood
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We talk about building accessibility tools at Microsoft, social media usage, landing product internship at Google X, going from finance to social impact, founding Neutrify, pivoting the product, gaining credibility with grocery stores, key takeaways from the CEO experience, first year as an international student in Canada, vegan dog food, life lessons learnt from playing poker, revival of in-person events, On Deck Catalyst Fellowship, cohort-based courses, future of crypto, Facebook Horizon Workrooms, daily routine and more. Follow Prashant: www.takeme.to/prashant Follow Iris: LinkedIn: Https://www.linkedin.com/in/iris-guo Instagram: Https://www.instagram.com/irisguoo/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/IrisGuoo Facebook: Https://www.facebook.com/yanjun.guo.568/ Neutrify: Https://neutrify.medium.com/ Linktree: Https://linktr.ee/irisguo
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We talk about studying biotech at the University of Toronto, founding Biodojo, leading growth at Front Row Ventures, Twitter vs LinkedIn, Molecule.to and much more.
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We talk about how Vinit got into Wish, pressure of hunting for internships, best hackathon experience, getting validation for your idea from the incumbent, journey leading up to starting SharksSquad, regret minimization framework, history repeating itself for Netflix, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Amul's covid-19 marketing strategy, daily routine, content creation, top books and much more.
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We talk about how Fuad landed his internship at SpaceX, buying BMW, mission-driven company culture at SpaceX, his parent's background, thought process behind joining Columbia's deferred MBA program, political polarization, Twitter promoting healthy conversations on the platform, Fuad's Twitter growth strategy, Twitter over LinkedIn, thought process behind Twitter deprecating Fleets, laser mosquito zapper, Bill Gates book on climate change, touch typing and more.
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We talk about why Gautam chose to study at the University of Waterloo, international student life, individualism, what made him jump into the startup world, the importance of having a co-founder, TikTok stories, Twitter Fleets, should billionaires spend their money on the space race, Spotify Plus, music streaming industry, entrepreneurship, Netflix documenting SpaceX's first all-civilian mission and much more.
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We talk about Faizal's journey of getting into AWS, working on Amazon Location Services team, writing design documents, insight into Amazon's interview process, one thing he doesn't like about Amazon, time management, service to share Netflix password for a small payment, a perfume idea, 'My First Million' podcast, Spotify exclusives, Instacart hiring Head of Facebook app as CEO and much more. Follow Prashant: www.takeme.to/prashant Follow Faizal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faizalsomani
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We talk about Ali's journey of getting into Zynga, dealing with rejection, gaming trends, leading the learning & development program at Zynga, his favourite game, essentialism, Sal Khan, licensing entertainment IP, Jon Ivy, Superpowered, getting mentored by Jennifer Catallo and much more.
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We sit down once again. This time we talk about subscription for cars, Birdflow, Apple vs Epic Games, Teachers Pay Teachers, edtech products with learner-centric philosophy, future of Africa, China's Debt Trap, foldable phones, future of computing, Neuralink, The Boring Company, Dubai, product intuition vs data-driven, Ryan Serhant and much more. Follow Daivik: Instagram: instagram.com/daivikgoel/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/daivikg/ Medium: daivikgoel.medium.com/ My Socials: takeme.to/prashant
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We talk about getting into Cisco, preparing for PM assignments, product philosophies, learning to be a good PM, AI & ML, no-code tools, UI, journey getting into product, mentorship, the launch of the first iPhone, Spotify vs Apple Music, Apple's product strategy, habits, productivity, Notion and much more.
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I've to thank Sang for bearing with me because the last time we planned to record a podcast, my internet went down. So finally, today we talk about sleep, apps to wake up early, initial days of Peko Produce, decision-making, a normal day running Peko Produce, making real dollars from the business, fundraising, deep dive into the business model, expansion plans, pre-teen magazine she started at 11 and much more. Follow Sang: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sanglethu Instagram: instagram.com/sangcastic Follow Me: Instagram: instagram.com/prashantpbagga Twitter: twitter.com/prashantpbagga LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/prashantpbagga Website: prashantbagga.com Medium: prashantpbagga.medium.com
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Shoutout to Aryaman (guest on episode #6) for introducing me to Prakhar. I met Prakhar for the first time this weekend over a go-karting championship and here we are. Today we talk about sleep schedule, workout, waking up early, preparing for IIT JEE, love for problem-solving, managing burnout in high school, the day of JEE exams, life at IIT Roorkee, internship at Samsung, placement process at IIT, getting into Google, Black Mirror, movies and much more. Follow Prakhar: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/prakhar-kansal-b48870148/ Instagram: instagram.com/prakhar_kansal/ Follow Me: Instagram: instagram.com/prashantpbagga Twitter: twitter.com/prashantpbagga LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/prashantpbagga Website: prashantbagga.com Medium: prashantpbagga.medium.com
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Huge shoutout to Georgiy (guest on episode #16) for introducing me to Rahul's work. Today we talk about the story behind writing the book, cold-emailing busy people for interviews, exciting deeptech ventures, being creative, maximizing serendipity, venture capital for moonshots vs startups, mental models, a solution for academia & moonshot founders to work together, getting involved with moonshots, importance of the entertainment industry with dissipating science and much more. Follow Rahul: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-rana-99b338169/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/r.ahulrana/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/rrana03_ -- Follow Me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prashantpbagga/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/prashantpbagga LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashantpbagga/ Website: https://prashantbagga.com/ Medium: https://prashantpbagga.medium.com/
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Rohan's first impression of mine: "What an a-hole. Who the hell is Prashant".
Today we talk about our entrepreneurship class at UWaterloo, first impressions, to sell is to be human, dating, getting into Coursera right before its IPO, views on edtech industry, popularity of vlogs, being an early employee at Bunch, A/B testing ideas on the side, product strategies, monetizing hobbies, consumer psychology and much more. Follow Rohan: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rohanspace_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rohanspace/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohan-dave/ Medium: https://medium.com/@rohandave -- Follow Me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prashantpbagga/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/prashantpbagga LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashantpbagga/ Website: https://prashantbagga.com/ Medium: https://prashantpbagga.medium.com/
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We were in the same coaching class in high school. I don't remember if we had any interaction but here we are. Today we talk about the evolution of podcasts, future of Clubhouse, Apple ecosystem, Amazon's antitrust hearing, content fatigue due to huge investments by streaming services, university experiences, thought process behind his Instagram handle, building dashboard for COVID-19, Basecamp banning political conversation in the company, definition of a good CEO, edtech in India, global healthcare and much more. Follow Arya: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arya-desai-436bb7185/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryahungryy/ -- Follow Me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prashantpbagga/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/prashantpbagga LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashantpbagga/ Website: https://prashantbagga.com/ Medium: https://prashantpbagga.medium.com/
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Just a DM on Instagram and here we are. Today we talk about university, building a smart jewelry startup at 19, building an economic data platform, scaling operations of a provincial political campaign, automating systems with Zapier, engaging with the community on Twitter, connecting with people in person, social dilemma, regulations in big tech, free speech, millennials getting into politics, cryptocurrency, need for a global organization to make data regulations, climate change and much more. Follow Georgiy: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gsekret/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gsekretaryuk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GSekretaryuk -- Follow Me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prashantpbagga/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/prashantpbagga LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashantpbagga/ Website: https://prashantbagga.com/ Medium: https://prashantpbagga.medium.com/
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I literally cried in this pod. Today we talk about running at 6 am, being vulnerable on social media, blogging, managing a global team, growing Design Buddies, LinkedIn, bullying, and much more. Follow Grace: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/graceling/ Portfolio: https://www.grace-ling.com/ Design Buddies Community (Discord Partner): https://discord.gg/designbuddies Instagram (Design & Art): https://www.instagram.com/candyleaf_/ Instagram (Me): https://www.instagram.com/irungracepace/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/graceleaf_ Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/Graceling Medium: https://medium.com/@graceling Clubhouse: @graceling
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We're long-time LinkedIn buddies who connected over product content. Today we talk about his new venture mentoring aspiring product managers, idea behind the name Doremon Den, working at Paytm, Clubhouse competitors, podcast industry, white noise, guided meditation, TikTok alternatives in India, use case of Whatsapp Story, Netflix's Play Something feature, how he got into Paytm, financial literacy in India, super apps and more. Follow Tanay: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanay-kedia/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tanay_cious/ -- Follow Me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prashantpbagga/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/prashantpbagga LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashantpbagga/ Website: https://prashantbagga.com/ Medium: https://prashantpbagga.medium.com/
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I connected with Arinze a while ago when he shared his journey of getting into Stanford MBA on LinkedIn. Today we talk about sleep, Stanford MBA, working at Facebook London office, growing up in Nigeria, issues around LGBTQ and entertainment technology. Follow Arinze: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arinzeobiezue/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heyarinze/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/heyarinze Newsletter: https://heyarinze.substack.com/welcome
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Pinged her on LinkedIn a couple of weeks ago and today ended up chatting about accessibility, product design, her new EA Internship, virtual/extended reality, journey getting into Berkeley, working across different time zones and finally some good shows to binge. Follow Resham: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/reshamkhanna/ Website: www.reshamkhanna.com Medium: https://reshamkhanna.medium.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reshusaur
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Divyang is the guy who introduced me to India's startup ecosystem. We talked about everything from fintech, parrots, values and while doing so, we lost 20 mins of the recording.
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Second episode with my buddy where we explore products to capture and make memories.
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Gestri and I won a hackathon that led me to land an internship at Microsoft. Check out our fun and random conversation.
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My guy is thoughtful. We talk about how he created his first Shopify Store, LinkedIn vs Twitter, discipline and routine. Joseph also has a light bulb moment later in the conversation.
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Damien is a very insightful guy. We talk about networking, LinkedIn, love for cyborgs, AI and a lot of other stuff. He also runs his own podcast called 'Into The Adultverse' with Fuad Ali.
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Chatting with my childhood frenemy Aryaman! If that's not cool enough, he's an IITian and current SWE at Microsoft.
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Where should I write content? - a question I always dwelt upon. Here's my advice for writers based on my experience building an audience online.
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This an audio version of my article with the same title. I thought this was a cool insight.
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I thought why not record an audio version of my recent article that got featured on LinkedIn News. So here it is.
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Chatting with my cute little sis about life - Dubai, chicken, Unicorn and more.
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You'll hear me yawn. It's 11 pm on a Sunday night and I thought why not sit down and get to know my sister.
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I just wanted to get started with this. So here's my first podcast - rambling about my story.
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