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Billion Moonshots
Hosted by Prashant · EN
Been Ranked Top 15 Podcast in India, Canada
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97: Building web3 Mobile Phone | Andrew Watson, Senior Android Developer at Solana Mobile
May 6, 202300:44:48Tap to summarizeSolana 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.
Transcribe →95: Own your Professional Credentials | Wojtek, Founder of Mazury.xyz
Apr 8, 202300:51:38Tap to summarizeWojtek 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.
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94: Personal Tokens | Christopher Robison, Founder of meTokens
Mar 5, 202301:03:45Tap to summarizeChristopher 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.
Transcribe →93: Simplifying Web3 Onboarding | Arman & Parker, Founders of Peaze
Mar 5, 202300:54:00Tap to summarizeArman 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.
Transcribe →90: From Dropout to Raising 4 Million Dollars | Pei Li, Co-Founder of Venue
Mar 5, 202300:41:35Tap to summarizePei 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.
Transcribe →89: He is building a Factory in Space !! | Delian Asparouhov, Founder of Varda Space Industries
Mar 5, 202300:39:17Tap to summarizeDelian 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.
Transcribe →88: Control your data & Earn Royalties | Sukhman Dulay, Co-founder of Cyder
Mar 5, 202300:47:52Tap to summarizeSukhman & 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.
Transcribe →87: Real Talk with Shane Mac | President of XMTP Labs
Mar 4, 202301:07:51Tap to summarizeShane 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.
Transcribe →86: From scaling Morning Brew to building Newsletter Platform | Tyler Denk, CEO of beehiiv
Mar 4, 202301:00:31Tap to summarizeTyler 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.
Transcribe →85: Space Journalist explains JWST Images | Rachael Zisk, Payload Space
Mar 4, 202300:51:14Tap to summarizeRachael 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.
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