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.
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
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
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
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
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, 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
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
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
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
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
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
Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga
Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
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.
