Billion Moonshots

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.

SPONSORS

Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/

Recast: https://recast.studio?fpr=prashant and use code BMS05 for 5% discount

GUEST LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/creativedrewy

Website: https://solanamobile.com/

CONNECT

Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagg

Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots

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.

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GUEST LINKS

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtishanni/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KurtisHanni

Website: https://kurtishanni.com/

CONNECT 

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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.

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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 

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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.

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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 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.

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GUEST LINKS

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyamoser/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmoserr

Website: https://userp.io/

CONNECT 

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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.

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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.

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CONNECT 

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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.

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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 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. 

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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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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.  

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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.

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CONNECT

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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.

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CONNECT

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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.

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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

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.

Thank You for Watching. 🎉

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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CONNECT

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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