Podcasts about mo islam

“Beautiful things are created in the darkest hours” - Mo Islam A conversation with Talah Saleh, Falak Investment Hub. Thank you so very much to the team at Falak Hub for hosting me on their platform. Really enjoyed sharing my story and what was such a meaningful conversation with Tala Slaeh. A big thank you as well to everyone in the live audience who came to watch and support. Your presence and energy were truly appreciated, and I hope my journey and insights resonated with you in some way. Looking forward to connecting again and continuing these impactful conversations!

Mo Islam, Partner at Threshold Ventures. discusses his firm's AI investment thesis. We had an excellent discussion on AI-enabled drug discovery, AI-enabled medical imaging, etc.

On this special episode, Faisal Nejaim dives deep into Mo's head, asking questions most have been eager to hear. Mo candidly addresses the highs and lows of the industry, sharing the trials and tribulations he has faced along the way. They discussed his past, present and his vision for the future of the show. At the end of the episode, Mo tells Faisal, “That was one of the realest conversation I've ever had!"

Today's Episode of the Garyvee audio experience is a recent interview I did with Mo Islam on his show The Mo Show during my last visit to Saudi Arabia. We talk about a bunch of very important topics including accountability as a key to happiness and success, the importance of being patient while still being ambitious, the TikTokification of social media, and much more. Would love to hear your thoughts on this one in the comments! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:04 Gary's thoughts on Saudi Arabia 4:09 The power of strong parenting 7:49 Accountability vs beating yourself up 11:34 Optimism vs cynicism 14:42 Empathy is a superpower 18:40 Patience vs complacency 20:48 The correlation between hard work and mental health 23:30 How to have a positive impact on the world 25:29 The TikTokification of social media 27:46 The democratization of attention 29:23 Kids and screens 32:18 Is the education system flawed? 33:42 Adversity is the foundation of success 40:20 Rapid fire with GaryVee --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/garyvee/message

As the space economy has skyrocketed, so too has coverage. Payload secured funding in 2021 and has grown into a space media hub, newsletters, podcasts, research and events. As it expands into other areas of coverage such as nuclear energy, co-founder Mo Islam joins Morgan Brennan to discuss the big trends tracking for space, how payload is opening up opportunities beyond the final frontier.

As the space economy has skyrocketed, so too has coverage. Payload secured funding in 2021 and has grown into a space media hub, newsletters, podcasts, research and events. As it expands into other areas of coverage such as nuclear energy, co-founder Mo Islam joins Morgan Brennan to discuss the big trends tracking for space, how payload is opening up opportunities beyond the final frontier.

In today's Pathfinder podcast, host Mo Islam chats with cofounder and CEO of True Anomaly, Even Rogers. Before founding True Anomaly, Even held a number of different space jobs, including Air Force space operations officer, where he helped lay the foundation for the establishment of the Space Force. While serving, he witnessed a shift within the space community from focusing on counterinsurgency operations to addressing vulnerabilities and threats in space systems amid the rise of China. True Anomaly develops spacecraft and software solutions to make space a protected harbor for the US and its allies. They are focusing on offering: operational testing, responsive operations, and space domain awareness. Even and Mo talk about the story behind True Anomaly, deterrence in space, and transitioning from the military to Silicon Valley. They also discuss: True Anomaly's product suite Striking the right balance of former military personnel and engineers Jackal's demo mission this fall Why VC investors are backing defense companies Security and data integrity in space And much more… This episode is brought to you by SpiderOak, a US-based software company that builds space cybersecurity products and solutions for civilian, military, and commercial space operations. Learn more at https://spideroak.com/ • Chapters • 00:00 - Intro and ad 01:50 - Even's journey from the military to Silicon Valley 08:48 - True Anomaly overview 12:12 - How did you pick your initial team? 13:34 - Product overview and roadmap 16:18 - Upcoming demo mission 19:07 - Current and future clients 21:43 - Key metric: cost per maneuver 25:24 - Autonomy and AI 28:20 - Security and data integrity 30:00 - SpiderOak ad break 30:48 - DoD's focus: "tactical and responsive" 33:36 - Vertical integration of True Anomaly 34:23 - Team construction and bridging skill gaps 38:25 - What has changed in the VC market for space startups? 44:37 - Deterrence theory in space 48:52 - Other veteran owned space companies 49:56 - Why Denver? • Show notes • True Anomaly's website — https://www.trueanomaly.space/True Anomaly's socials — https://twitter.com/The_TrueAnomaly Mo's socials — https://twitter.com/itsmoislam Payload's socials — https://twitter.com/payloadspace / https://www.linkedin.com/company/payloadspace Pathfinder archive — Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@payloadspace Pathfinder archive — Listen: https://pod.payloadspace.com/episodes • About us • Pathfinder is brought to you by Payload, a modern space media brand built from the ground up for a new age of space exploration and commercialization. We deliver need-to-know news and insights daily to 15,000+ commercial, civil, and military space leaders. Payload is read by decision-makers at every leading new space company, along with c-suite leaders at all of the aerospace & defense primes. We're also read on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon, and at space agencies around the world. Payload began as a weekly email sent to a few friends and coworkers. Today, we're a team distributed across four time zones and two continents, publishing three media properties across multiple platforms: 1) Payload, our flagship daily newsletter, sends M-F @ 9am Eastern (https://newsletter.payloadspace.com/) 2) Pathfinder publishes weekly on Tuesday mornings (pod.payloadspace.com) 3) Polaris, our weekly policy publication, hits inboxes Tuesday (https://polaris.payloadspace.com/) 4) Parallax, our weekly space science briefing, hits inboxes Thursday (https://parallax.payloadspace.com/)

You need to be paying attention to the space industry. Why? Because Payload Cofounder Ari Lewis has finally agreed to be a guest on Pathfinder. You've probably seen Ari in his natural habitat: flying around the country to events and conferences, sporting his trademark Payload baseball cap, helping companies understand why they need to partner with Payload. But today, the lifeblood of Payload's sales engine sits down with fellow cofounder and Pathfinder host Mo Islam. Mo and Ari discuss the Payload origin story, scaling a media organization, and the future vision of the business. They also talk about: Challenges faced by the space industry today Parallels between the space and crypto industry How to build a strong media brand The Payload 10-Year VisionAnd much more…Our episode is brought to you by SpiderOak, a US-based software company that builds space cybersecurity products and solutions for civilian, military, and commercial space operations. Learn more at https://spideroak.com/ • Chapters •00:00 - Introduction 00:35 - SpiderOak Ad 01:13 - Introduction to Ari 01:37 - What finally made you decide to come on the show? 02:16 - Payload origin story 07:01 - How Ari got to Payload 09:02 - Crypto to space? 13:02 - What made Payload unique and allowed it to grow? 18:25 - How does Payload make money? 21:53 - Space industry challenges and how Payload can help 31:02 - How you view Twitter as a tool for the space industry 35:57 - SpiderOak Ad Break 36:45 - Will Payload expand beyond the space industry? 39:00 - Fundamentals of building a strong brand 45:53 - How Ari stays focused and motivated 47:37 - Hobbies outside of work 48:29 - Secret energy source? 50:23 - How does someone working at Payload ask for a raise? 51:39 - Favorite part about Payload or memory 54:40 - The Payload 10 Year Vision• Show notes •Ari's socials — https://twitter.com/amlewis4Mo's socials — https://twitter.com/itsmoislam Payload's socials — https://twitter.com/payloadspace / https://www.linkedin.com/company/payloadspace Pathfinder archive — Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@payloadspace Pathfinder archive — Listen: https://pod.payloadspace.com/episodes • About us •Pathfinder is brought to you by Payload, a modern space media brand built from the ground up for a new age of space exploration and commercialization. We deliver need-to-know news and insights daily to 15,000+ commercial, civil, and military space leaders. Payload is read by decision-makers at every leading new space company, along with c-suite leaders at all of the aerospace & defense primes. We're also read on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon, and at space agencies around the world. Payload began as a weekly email sent to a few friends and coworkers. Today, we're a team distributed across four time zones and two continents, publishing three media properties across multiple platforms: 1) Payload, our flagship daily newsletter, sends M-F @ 9am Eastern (https://newsletter.payloadspace.com/) 2) Pathfinder publishes weekly on Tuesday mornings (pod.payloadspace.com) 3) Polaris, our weekly policy publication, hits inboxes Tuesday (https://polaris.payloadspace.com/) 4) Parallax, our weekly space science briefing, hits inboxes Thursday (https://parallax.payloadspace.com/)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shashank Kumar is co-founder of Razorpay - a $7.5B fintech giant in India. He graduated from IIT Roorkee, worked at Microsoft in Seattle, was driving Mustang, and still felt he could do more. So he flew back to India and built a unicorn. We talked about life post-graduation, living in US, convincing dad to move back to India, early days of Razorpay, getting into YC, imposter syndrome, and much more. SPONSORS 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/shashank_kr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumarshashank/ CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots OUTLINE (0:00) Driving Mustang at 22 (4:58) Life in US post IIT (9:02) Origin of Razorpay (15:03) Dad's reaction to coming back home (18:06) Finding Product-Market Fit (21:20) How Y Combinator took growth to another level (26:21) Paid 25 lacs to get a Payment Gateway License (30:20) Imposter Syndrome (34:51) Hiring first 10 employees (38:53) The story behind the name 'Razorpay' (40:43) RBI driving innovation in the Indian fintech ecosystem (43:08) Living with co-founder even today (44:57) Future of Tier 3 & Tier 4 cities (48:12) Philosophy of Money (52:07) Day in Life as CTO of a unicorn (54:13) Razorpay's Web3 strategy (56:45) Reverse Brain Drain (1:02:56) Dad's Reaction today [MUST WATCH] TOP EPISODES 75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread 74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust 68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan 10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi) Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Jenna Hannon is the Founder at Supermassiv. She led marketing at Uber Eats and is now building Supermassiv to help artists make real money. We talk about teaching kitesurfing to Elon Musk, how the new CEO changed the culture at Uber, making money with NFTs as a musician, having lunch with Val Kilmer, and more. SPONSORS 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/JennaHannon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennahannon/ Website: https://jennahannon.com/ AngelList: https://angel.co/p/jenna-hannon CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots OUTLINE (0:00) Teaching Elon Musk how to Kitesurf (4:02) Email to new Uber CEO (6:19) How new CEO changed the culture at Uber (10:14) Why quit Uber (12:01) Origin story of Supermassiv (14:35) State of Music Industry (21:45) How TikTok changed Music (25:32) Getting into Crypto back in 2011 (30:54) What's wrong with NFTs (33:52) Most creative NFTs (36:45) How Artists can make money with NFTs (40:59) How Supermassiv works (47:45) What's Web 2.5 ?? (48:40) The Supermassiv Vision (54:53) Lunch with Val Kilmer TOP EPISODES 71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund 68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan 45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks 10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi) 2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis) Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Kyla is an independent, Gen Z friendly, new-age content creator with a fantastic newsletter and YouTube channel. She wrote her first book “The Little Penguin” in third grade, started options trading at 16, sold cars in college, garnered ~130k followers on TikTok with her finance skits and working with top brands like Morning Brew & Bankless. She's also building a fintech startup in stealth (launching soon). We talk about doing options trading at 16, selling cars in college, the right time to publish on Tiktok, monetary policies, sneak peek into her startup, and more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots GUEST LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/kylascan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylascanlon/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylascan/ Website: https://kylascanlon.com/ Newsletter: https://kyla.substack.com/ OUTLINE (0:00) Options Trading at 16 (2:54) How Options Trading works? (5:38) Selling over $1M worth of cars in college (9:41) Writing book in 3rd grade (10:35) Content Creation (14:29) Power of TikTok (19:16) What is the right time to post on TikTok? (20:43) The Fed, Monetary Policies & Inflation (25:33) It's a good time to Buy (27:49) Bullish on Metaverse? (33:57) Building Financial Education Company (34:27) Day in Life! (38:30) Closing first sponsorship deal w/ Morning Brew (40:12) Is Venture Capital a Ponzi Scheme? (42:57) Web4??? (45:10) Elon vs Twitter (47:18) Cheat Codes for Creators TOP EPISODES 71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund 68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan 45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks 10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi) 2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis) Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Adam Jackson is the co-founder of Braintrust - the largest decentralized talent marketplace. Braintrust's mission is to build the world's most impactful talent network — one that is user-owned, aligns incentives, and redistributes value to Talent and Organizations. Previously, Adam founded 4 VC-backed companies, sold 2 of them, and is an angel investor in 100+ companies. We talk about Web2 vs Web3 marketplaces, building a successful governance model, mechanics of DAO, freelance economy, message for Web3 critics, and much more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots GUEST LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamjacksonsf LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajackson/ Website: http://www.usebraintrust.com/ Portfolio: https://angel.co/p/adamjackson OUTLINE (0:00) Built 4 companies, sold 2 of them (1:31) Solving the Chicken & Egg problem of Marketplaces (4:07) "Dirty little secret" of Web2 Marketplaces (7:43) Venture Capital as a forcing function that leads to fee extraction (9:33) First encounter with Blockchain (10:49) BTRST as a Governance Token (12:52) Is Braintrust a DAO? (14:16) What happens when DAO members don't execute a proposal (16:49) What's working, what's not working (19:55) Role of a DAO Founder (21:18) Value of a Token (22:51) What happens when VCs hold a lot of tokens (23:54) Growing from 0 to 700,000 members during the pandemic (25:32) Convincing Nike, Goldman Sachs & other Web2 co's to get onboard (28:12) Hiring remotely & globally (30:07) How the freelance economy is helping corporate America (33:07) Vetting new Talent (35:05) Coordinating 100+ developers to build DAO (41:19) How many tokens does Adam own? (42:00) Crypto Twitter & Future of Web3 (46:24) Are you buying the dip? (46:49) Message for Web3 Critics TOP EPISODES 71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund 68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan 45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks 10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi) 2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis) Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Ryan Duffy is the Founding Editor of Payload Space, a digital media outfit covering the business and policy of space. Previously, he worked at Morning Brew where he launched their second product, Emerging Tech Brew. Over three years Ryan was at the Brew, the newsletter grew to a subscriber base of 300,000+, all while maintaining industry-leading open rates. We talk about getting detained by the UN in Haiti, time at Morning Brew, scaling Emerging Tech Brew from 0 to 300K readers and a lot of space meta trends. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots GUEST LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ryandoofy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfduffy/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/duffydrones/ Website: https://ryanduffy.xyz/ Payload Newsletter: https://payloadspace.com/ OUTLINE (0:00) Getting detained by the United Nations in Haiti (3:26) Not setting a predetermined path for yourself (8:34) Solo creator vs traditional media (11:21) Deciding to Write Full-time (17:13) Getting into Morning Brew with a Facebook Event description (20:15) Secret sauce(s) of Morning Brew (40:40) Pulling all-nighter for Russia-Ukraine war (45:13) Morning Brew vs The Hustle (46:34) Move to Payload Space (52:48) Inflated email open rates due to Apple's privacy change (55:35) Value for Space Industry & Government Military (1:01:01) Interviews with Rocket Scientists & Heads of Military (1:05:48) Drones & FAA certification (1:10:10) Tragedy of Orbital debri (1:19:43) 1969 Moon Landing (1:25:34) The Wild Launch Landscape (1:31:25) Business Models of Space (1:35:49) Space's PR problem (1:42:00) The best minds are thinking about how to make people click ads (1:45:54) Kids wanna be professional YouTuber over Astronaut (1:53:58) Hi Sean! (1:55:17) Lunar & Mars Exploration (2:04:11) How to break into Space Industry TOP EPISODES 71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund 68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan 45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks 10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi) 2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis) Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

"80% of the people who follow me are in for the ideas and not how beautiful they look" Janis Ozolins is an Illustrator with over 38,000 followers on Twitter. His work have been seen by millions of people and led him to work for Naval Ravikant, Steven Bartlett, Matt D'Avella, Shaan Puri, Julian Shapiro and others. We talk about life after school, selling his first product as a creator, and going full time into creating visuals on Twitter. He also shared advice for beginners such as what platform to pick, how to start, etc. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots GUEST LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/OzolinsJanis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozolinsjanis/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jaozolins Website: https://bio.link/ozo OUTLINE (00:00) Life in School (01:32) From selling bikes to becoming IT manager (03:25) The Book that changed my life (08:27) Living by society's default standards (11:33) 3 people who inspired to go all-in into visuals (15:52) Early days of growing on Twitter (19:17) Kids help you cut all the BS in life (22:20) 0 to 40K followers on Twitter (26:53) 50% of the battle is to figure out what to do (29:22) Design Inspirations from James Clear & Jack Butcher (35:20) How to generate ideas (39:43) A day in my life (46:53) Mission might sound cringe, but you need it (50:44) Landing gigs with Julian Shapiro & Shaan Puri (56:14) Shaan Puri's Golden Framework for Creators (01:01:52) Minimalism & Matt D'Avella (01:06:58) My Support System (01:12:40) Creator Economy & upcoming Artists (01:18:02) Leveraged your Time (01:22:39) What social media platform to focus on? (01:25:38) Advice for Creators TOP EPISODES 71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund 68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan 10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi) 2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis) Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more. 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. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga GUEST LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/DStrachman LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellestrachman Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dstrachman OUTLINE (0:00) Origin story (6:55) The right way to homeschool kids (14:38) How to build your own school (26:05) How should parents should convince their child to study (29:35) How did Danielle join Thiel Fellowship (36:40) How to become a Thiel Fellow (45:20) Superpower of Peter Thiel (50:00) Betting on founders of OYO & Figma (56:10) Investing in Loom (59:40) Role of Venture Capital in today's world (1:09:32) The Bootstrap mindset (1:12:54) Managing ego & arrogance as VC TOP EPISODES #68 Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin #62 Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan #45 Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks #10 Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi) #2 Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis) Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

John Howard is the founder of Slingshot. Slingshot is a swag company that leads to more sales calls, and more shout-outs on social media. We discuss how John sold his design agency, built Slingshot, how it evolved over the years, executing Adobe's viral Twitter campaign, bootstrapping, and much more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ OUTLINE (0:00) How John sold his design agency (9:00) How to hack the Dribbble algorithm (15:15) What happened after John left the agency (17:04) Built Slingshot (23:28) Evolution (26:33) Adobe's viral Twitter campaign (35:22) Growth rate of Slingshot (44:07) Most popular swag (51:12) John's sales experience (01:08:28) Bootstrapping Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Johnny Dallas is the founder of Zeet. Zeet is a developer tool to help less experienced engineers easily deploy and scale their applications. He broke into startups at 14 as a Software Engineer at Bebo (founded by Shaan Puri). A few years later, he was promoted as their Director of Operations, while still being a teenager. When Bebo got acquired by Twitch in 2019 he became the youngest engineer ever at Amazon. Then, he quit Amazon to start Zeet at 19. We discuss his experience working with Shaan Puri, building various products, getting acquired by the biggest live streaming platform, managing high school & a full-time job & much more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ OUTLINE (0:00) 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.

Natalie Brunell is a Podcast host at Coin Stories. She has over 220,000 Twitter followers and is an educator in the Bitcoin space. Her popular show, Coin Stories, features interviews with Bitcoin thought leaders about their backgrounds and conviction for BTC. She is also a video contributor to Bitcoin Magazine. We discuss Natalie's transition from journalism to podcasting, being bullish on Bitcoin, how Bitcoin can lead us to a better world, the role of other cryptocurrencies, the future of censorship, and the adoption of cryptocurrencies due to war, and more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ OUTLINE 0:00 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.

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.

We're joined by Mo Islam, Payload's Co-Founder. We cover lessons we can learn from the Apollo space era, why killing them with kindness is the best option, and why founders should stay focused on what they love. “Hubris kills startups and humility saves them. No matter what your success level is or may not be, it's really important to always be humble about what you're building and what you're doing because it can change at the drop of a hat.” – Mo Islam EPISODE GUIDE (LINKS, QUOTES, NOTES, AND BOOKS MENTIONED) https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/mo-islam-playbook  FULL TEXT TRANSCRIPT https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/mo-islam-playbook-transcript  CHAPTERS In this episode, we deconstruct Mo Islam's peak performance playbook—from their favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on their life. In it we cover: (00:00:00) – Introduction (00:01:40) – Clearing up misconceptions about space (00:03:06) – Kill them with kindness, embrace the boredom (00:05:30) – Learning from Phillippe Laffont and Engines That Move Markets (00:07:33) – Hubris kills startups; humility saves them (00:09:18) – Focus on what you love (00:12:02) – Learning from the Apollo era (00:13:15) – Relying on to-do lists and the Notes app (00:15:53) – Do what matters, change people's lives for the better ABOUT MO ISLAM Mo Islam is co-founder of Payload, which is building a media empire dedicated to covering the business and policy of space, as in outer space. We discovered Payload and immediately subscribed to their daily newsletter after it was recommended by Delian Asparouhov, co-founder of Varda Space Industries, in Episode 71. We asked Delian what newsletters and websites he used to stay on top of everything going on in space, and he had only one answer: Payload Space. Mo Islam has a fascinating background in finance, having worked at J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank before co-founding Payload. In this episode, Mo shares why hubris kills startups and humility saves them, what he's learned from incredible investors like Philippe Laffont at Coatue, and why he loves the book Engines That Move Markets, which we had never heard of but immediately ordered after recording this episode with him.

We explore building a media brand to cover the business and policy of space. We're joined by Mo Islam, Payload's Co-Founder, who talks with us about becoming the number one resource for space industry news. We cover everything from lowering the costs of space travel to why we are in the middle of the next space race. “Very simply, we are living in the next space race, and it's going to have huge implications for the way we built technology, the way we spend dollars in military.” – Mo Islam EPISODE GUIDE (LINKS, QUOTES, NOTES, AND BOOKS MENTIONED) https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/payload-mo-islam  FULL TEXT TRANSCRIPT https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/payload-mo-islam-transcript  CHAPTERS This episode is our definitive guide to building a media brand to cover the business and policy of space. In it we cover: (00:00:00) – Introduction (00:02:36) – How Payload focuses on the business and policy of space (00:10:54) – How Elon Musk has changed the space race (00:15:17) – Aerospace and defense go hand in hand (00:18:11) – Earth imaging illuminates the atrocities of war (00:19:36) – We are living in the next space race (00:22:52) – SPACs and space (00:28:57) – How we'll move from government to commercial spending in space (00:33:11) – Reusable second stages and lowering the costs of space exploration (00:36:59) – What scaling Starlink could mean for space travel (00:39:40) – Launching a media brand and the importance of voice (00:43:32) – Making Payload the most important voice in the space discussion (00:51:49) – Learning from feedback and embracing boredom ABOUT MO ISLAM Mo Islam is the co-founder of Payload Space, which is building a media empire dedicated to covering the business and policy of space, as in outer space. We discovered Payload and immediately subscribed to their daily newsletter after it was recommended by Delian Asparouhov, co-founder of Varda Space Industries, in episode 71. We asked Delian what newsletters and websites he used to stay on top of everything going on in space, and he had only one answer: Payload Space.  In this episode, we go deep on why we're at an inflection point when it comes to space and how that was unlocked, at least in the U.S., largely by SpaceX, which has brought down the price to get a unit of mass up to low Earth orbit by order of magnitude. We cover the outsized role the military and defense departments play as customers for space companies, ranging from Earth imaging to satellite manufacturing startups. We talk about the space companies that Mo thinks are the most underrated, as well as how Payload is building a media empire, starting with what Mo calls The Modern Homepage, which is their daily newsletter. We discuss how Payload crafted a compelling voice and editorial style in an old school and relatively stodgy industry, making space cool to read and learn about.

Mo Islam is the Co-Founder & CEO of Payload, a Modern Media Company build around a daily newsletter reporting on the Space Industry.--- Episode Sponsor: GeoAwesomeness & UP42 EO HubGeoawesomenessUP42---Shownotes: - Subscribe to Payload! - Pathfinder, their podcast- Crowdfunded SpaceX round of investment- Book & Podcast Recommendations      - Engines that move markets     - The Portal, Episode with Peter Thiel- For All Mankind- Payload's space-themed playlistTimestamps: 00:00 Introduction 03:34 Episode Begins: From Banking to Space Media 07:41 Deciding to start a Newsletter 12:19 Doing to Media what Happened to New Space 14:21 Deciding to Focus on 'High Value Readers'' 19:50 Getting Feedback 21:52 Payload's Target Audience 31:21 Earth Observation 35:33 Challenges of Reporting on Technical Fields 38:18 What Is Worth Reporting On 43:05 Earth Observation is Tough for Investors 50:18 Information Over Opinion 55:04 What Happened to the Earth Observation SPACs 59:35 Predictions: Earth Observation companies Getting Acquired 01:01:58 Would Google or Facebook buy an EO Company? 01:05:19 Other Forms of Media & TikTok 01:09:11 The Media Funnel 01:13:27 Focus & Analogy With Software Products 01:15:34 Payload's EndGame 01:18:10 Books & Podcast Recommendations 01:22:59 Music & Other Arts Around Space 01:24:24 Pathfinder Spotify Playlist Feel free to reach out! - Website- My Twitter- Podcast Twitter- Read Previous Issues of the Newsletter- Edited by Peter Xiong. Find more of his work

Mo Islam (@itsmoislam), co-founder of Payload Space, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode. Takeaways:- There is no doubt that we are in the early stages of the space economy, Mo says.- The cost to go to Mars will be paid many times over by the young engineers who will be inspired by the mission.- There are three main buckets in the space economy: space for earth (companies creating products for humans on earth via their space endeavors), space for space (companies serving other companies in space) and beyond earth (“science fiction”-type activities like colonization, mining, and exploration).- The International Space Station cost $100B to build.- SpaceX built the Falcon 9 at 1/10th the cost that NASA estimated.- In the 1960s there were only two space programs but now there are 80+ and they are all trying to get an economic return on investment.- Mo's contrarian take is that launch is actually underhyped. Very few companies have a launch vehicle that has made it to orbit with a significant payload capacity.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.Check us out on the web at www.villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We'll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley. www.villageglobal.vc/signup

Mo Islam (@itsmoislam), co-founder of Payload Space, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode. Takeaways:- There is no doubt that we are in the early stages of the space economy, Mo says.- The cost to go to Mars will be paid many times over by the young engineers who will be inspired by the mission.- There are three main buckets in the space economy: space for earth (companies creating products for humans on earth via their space endeavors), space for space (companies serving other companies in space) and beyond earth (“science fiction”-type activities like colonization, mining, and exploration).- The International Space Station cost $100B to build.- SpaceX built the Falcon 9 at 1/10th the cost that NASA estimated.- In the 1960s there were only two space programs but now there are 80+ and they are all trying to get an economic return on investment.- Mo's contrarian take is that launch is actually underhyped. Very few companies have a launch vehicle that has made it to orbit with a significant payload capacity.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform.Check us out on the web at www.villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We'll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley. www.villageglobal.vc/signup

Pei Li is currently the co-founder of Venue, was previously the founder of CodeMode, a small development agency specializing in building MVPs. Studied at University of Toronto after that he has worked as a software engineer at Wealthsimple. We talked about growing in an unprivileged family, taking internships at companies like IBM, raising funds, building consultation firm and much more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount GUEST LINKS Website: https://www.venue.live/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peicodes/ CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots OUTLINE (0:00) - Growing up in a financially poor background (4:23) - Landing internship at IBM, Shopify & Wealthsimple (11:41) - First shot at building startup (15:42) - Travelling & consulting (24:05) - Joining Venue (26:25) - Replacing in-person conferences (30:00) - Venue's value proposition (37:30) - Raising $4M TOP EPISODES 77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi] 75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread 74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust 68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi] Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

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.

Today is Opposite Day at Pathfinder. Rather than interview someone, Ryan himself is sitting down in the hot seat to take an hour's worth of questions. Our guest host is cofounder Mo Islam. Though he's Ryan's coworker, he's also his boss and a fair, unsparing interviewer. Pathfinder #0021 is brought to you by Spaced Ventures, the planet's first space investment portal. Spaced Ventures recently launched an effort to open an investment round into SpaceX, and as of this writing, has received $36.6M+ in pledges from more than 2,050 investors. Okay, here we go…Today's guest is Ryan Duffy, the managing editor of Payload and host of Pathfinder. Our discussion with Ryan peels back the curtain to offer an inside look into how the ever-growing Payload newsroom operates. What we cover: a sneak peek Launching the daily Payload newsletter and what we've learned one year in Ryan's experience creating Morning Brew's second product Digital media startups and newsletter-first distribution models Evolving from curation to original reporting and analysis Popular narratives vs. what's actually happening in the space industry Who we write for at Payload and how we see our audience Ryan launders the best insights and talking points from previous Pathfinder alumni Hype cycles in space and other emerging technology-dominant industries What's next for Payload

Delian Asparouhov is a principal at the Founders Fund and co-founder of Varda Space Industries, a space manufacturing startup. We talked about juggling between a VC and founder role, the science of space manufacturing, future plans, life of a space factory worker, creating zero-gravity on Earth, hiring from SpaceX, superpower of Peter Thiel, and more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount GUEST LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/zebulgar?s=20&t=pfJTZ4FToEOJ2NY7gjAt2g LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/delian-asparouhov-87447742/ Website: https://varda.com/ CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots OUTLINE (0:00) - Juggling between VC and founder role (5:18) - Science of space manufacturing (12:45) - Putting Factories in Space (18:30) - Life of a space factory worker (21:09) - Is zero-gravity manufacturing on Earth possible? (27:28) - Hiring from SpaceX's Dragon team (33:29) - Role of NASA in the space economy (37:32) - Economic incentives in the space industry TOP EPISODES 77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi] 75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread 74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust 68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi] Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Sukhman & his co-founder both worked as data consultants where they helped companies understand their customers. This included analyzing consumer behavior, habits, and demographics. While in these roles they started to see the blatant disregard for consumer privacy to prioritize marketing and profits. The work they did exploited customer data and directly provided millions of dollars in value to these companies. They felt like villains at work. This is when they started researching ways to protect their own online privacy and realized how difficult this task was. The onus was continuously on the average person to follow best practices, which often required tons of conscious effort and ruined the user experience. This is why they came up with Cyder. Cyder is a browser extension that makes privacy, and data ownership simple, free, and accessible to everyone. Their mission has always been to create an internet where users own and get compensated for their data. We talk about building Cyder, disregard for consumer privacy, expectation vs reality of being a founder, going viral with YC application video, and much more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount GUEST LINKS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sukhmandulay/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cyder/ Cyder: https://www.getcyder.com/ CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots OUTLINE (0:00) - Data consulting after graduation (4:00) - Feeling like villains at work (13:33) - Decentralized blockchain for data security (17:56) - Data Ethics (22:59) - Ad desensitization (28:35) - Origin story of Cyder (37:08) - Expectation vs Reality of being a founder (41:30) - Importance of having a co-founder (44:10) - Going viral with YC application video (46:20) - Do you still feel like a villain at work? TOP EPISODES 77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi] 75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread 74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust 68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi] Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Shane Mac is building a crypto-native communication protocol for web3. Similar to SMTP for email, XMTP will enable communication between existing crypto wallets via its own independent protocol and decentralized network. They have raised a $20M Series A from a16z Crypto, with participation from other popular funds and strategic angels. We talk about the origin story of XMTP, learnings from interviewing Gary Vee, being young and lucky, writing book at 23, entrepreneurship and much more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ GUEST LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/shanemac Blog: https://blog.shanemac.com/ CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots OUTLINE (0:00) - Young and Lucky (12:22) - Getting calmer (18:31) - Gary Vee (25:37) - Hosting Podcast (30:57) - Great podcast episode (32:08) - Heavy Conversations (40:33) - Culture (42:50) - Writing Book (52:00) - Entrepreneurship (59:06) - XMTP (01:04:25) - Meaning of Life TOP EPISODES 77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi] 75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread 74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust 68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi] Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Tyler Denk led product & growth at Morning Brew, did product stint at Google and then last year, launched beehiiv - a newsletter platform empowering creators to monetize and grow like never before. We talked about building startup in college, dropping Big 4 consulting firm to join Morning Brew, scaling newsletter to 3M subcribers, product management lessons from Google, launching beehiiv, why email newsletter is a great business and more. SPONSORS 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/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.

On this week's episode of the Pathfinder podcast, Ryan sits down with Mo Islam, who is his boss and the cofounder/CEO of Payload. Pathfinder is brought to you by SpiderOak Mission Systems — www.spideroak-ms.com — an industry leader in space cybersecurity. Check out the company's space cybersecurity white paper at spacecyber.com. A Payload on Payload interview? It's like the Spiderman pointing at another Spiderman meme. Jokes aside, Ryan invited Mo on to discuss a presentation he prepared for the Payload team at their recent off-site meeting. This week's episode focuses on an adapted version of the deck and what's happening within the macroeconomy. What we cover: Mo's Wall Street background Starting Payload Inflation, a possible recession, and the global food crisis How it's all connected to the space industry Consumer credit, COVID-19, and a “systemic failure in the crypto industry” Aerospace and defense (A&D) outperformance over other indices Tech valuation compressions A record year for space investing The next chapter of the space industry Is Starship priced in? ...and much more! It's a great conversation and we're super excited for you to hear it. Thanks to Mo for coming on Pathfinder!

Aditi Kothari is the Product Manager of Razorpay Rize. She got into product management in an unconventional way, after randomly meeting the founder of Rapido in a cafe. Previously, she was PM at Bounce and runs a CBC (cohort-based-course) on No Code for Airtribe. We talked about breaking into product management, landing PM role at Razorpay, the fundamental difference between Swiggy and Zomato, micro mobility strategy of Bounce, and much more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ GUEST LINKS Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditi-kothari/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/aditikothari_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aditi_kothari_/ CONNECT 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 (4:18) - Why SEO (5:30) - Why agency is an incredible business model (7:45) - Reaching $1M ARR in the first year (11:04) - What does a successful SEO agency do? (12:40) - How are brands adapting to the upcoming recession? (14:26) - How to price your services and capture upside? (22:16) - Objections to closing clients (24:16) - How long does it take to get results from SEO? (27:30) - Monday.com Case Study (30:52) - Economics of Acquiring a SaaS startup (38:47) - Leveraging Twitter for Lead Generation (42:02) - Twitter vs LinkedIn (45:55) - 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.

“Hubris kills startups and humility saves them. No matter what your success level is or may not be, it's really important to always be humble about what you're building and what you're doing because it can change at the drop of a hat.” – Mo Islam Mo Islam is co-founder of Payload, which is building a media empire dedicated to covering the business and policy of space, as in outer space. We discovered Payload and immediately subscribed to their daily newsletter after it was recommended by Delian Asparouhov, co-founder of Varda Space Industries, in Episode 71. We asked Delian what newsletters and websites he used to stay on top of everything going on in space, and he had only one answer: Payload Space. Mo Islam has a fascinating background in finance, having worked at J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank before co-founding Payload. In this episode, Mo shares why hubris kills startups and humility saves them, what he's learned from incredible investors like Philippe Laffont at Coatue, and why he loves the book Engines That Move Markets, which we had never heard of but immediately ordered after recording this episode with him. Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode:  https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/mo-islam-playbook  Chapters In this episode, we deconstruct Mo Islam's peak performance playbook—from their favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on their life. In it we cover: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:01:40 – Clearing up misconceptions about space 00:03:06 – Kill them with kindness, embrace the boredom 00:05:30 – Learning from Phillippe Laffont and Engines That Move Markets 00:07:33 – Hubris kills startups; humility saves them 00:09:18 – Focus on what you love 00:12:02 – Learning from the Apollo era 00:13:15 – Relying on to-do lists and the Notes app 00:15:53 – Do what matters, change people's lives for the better Sign up here for Outlier Debrief, our weekly newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week. Follow Outlier Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy. If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tibo started his career selling TVs and now makes $1M in ARR from his Twitter growth tool, TweetHunter. We talk about learnings from the first startup, shipping a product every 2 weeks, success of TweetHunter, acquiring initial users, finding a co-founder, making $1M ARR, and more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots GUEST LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/tibo_maker LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thibaultll/ OUTLINE (0:00) Selling TVs (2:32) First Startup: Motivating Kids to do chores (9:50) Shipping a product every 2 weeks (14:59) Success of TweetHunter (19:26) Acquiring Initial Users & Finding Co-founder on Twitter (25:20) How to validate idea (28:18) Importance of building audience for Founders (34:55) Marketing your side projects (36:49) Making $1M ARR from TweetHunter (40:45) The viral TweetHunter Challenge (43:48) Replicating TweetHunter Success on LinkedIn TOP EPISODES 77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi] 75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread 74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust 68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi] Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Sang Le, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Shashank Kumar is co-founder of Razorpay - a $7.5B fintech giant in India. He graduated from IIT Roorkee, worked at Microsoft in Seattle, was driving Mustang, and still felt he could do more. So he flew back to India and built a unicorn. We talked about life post-graduation, living in US, convincing dad to move back to India, early days of Razorpay, getting into YC, imposter syndrome, and much more. SPONSORS 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/shashank_kr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumarshashank/ CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots OUTLINE (0:00) Driving Mustang at 22 (4:58) Life in US post IIT (9:02) Origin of Razorpay (15:03) Dad's reaction to coming back home (18:06) Finding Product-Market Fit (21:20) How Y Combinator took growth to another level (26:21) Paid 25 lacs to get a Payment Gateway License (30:20) Imposter Syndrome (34:51) Hiring first 10 employees (38:53) The story behind the name 'Razorpay' (40:43) RBI driving innovation in the Indian fintech ecosystem (43:08) Living with co-founder even today (44:57) Future of Tier 3 & Tier 4 cities (48:12) Philosophy of Money (52:07) Day in Life as CTO of a unicorn (54:13) Razorpay's Web3 strategy (56:45) Reverse Brain Drain (1:02:56) Dad's Reaction today [MUST WATCH] TOP EPISODES 75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread 74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust 68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan 10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google [Hindi] Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

“Very simply, we are living in the next space race, and it's going to have huge implications for the way we built technology, the way we spend dollars in military.” – Mo Islam Mo Islam is the co-founder of Payload Space, which is building a media empire dedicated to covering the business and policy of space, as in outer space. We discovered Payload and immediately subscribed to their daily newsletter after it was recommended by Delian Asparouhov, co-founder of Varda Space Industries, in episode 71. We asked Delian what newsletters and websites he used to stay on top of everything going on in space, and he had only one answer: Payload Space.  In this episode, we go deep on why we're at an inflection point when it comes to space and how that was unlocked, at least in the U.S., largely by SpaceX, which has brought down the price to get a unit of mass up to low Earth orbit by order of magnitude. We cover the outsized role the military and defense departments play as customers for space companies, ranging from Earth imaging to satellite manufacturing startups. We talk about the space companies that Mo thinks are the most underrated, as well as how Payload is building a media empire, starting with what Mo calls The Modern Homepage, which is their daily newsletter. We discuss how Payload crafted a compelling voice and editorial style in an old school and relatively stodgy industry, making space cool to read and learn about. Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode:  https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/payload-mo-islam  Chapters This episode is our definitive guide to building a media brand to cover the business and policy of space. In it we cover: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:36 – How Payload focuses on the business and policy of space 00:10:54 – How Elon Musk has changed the space race 00:15:17 – Aerospace and defense go hand in hand 00:18:11 – Earth imaging illuminates the atrocities of war 00:19:36 – We are living in the next space race 00:22:52 – SPACs and space 00:28:57 – How we'll move from government to commercial spending in space 00:33:11 – Reusable second stages and lowering the costs of space exploration 00:36:59 – What scaling Starlink could mean for space travel 00:39:40 – Launching a media brand and the importance of voice 00:43:32 – Making Payload the most important voice in the space discussion 00:51:49 – Learning from feedback and embracing boredom Sign up here for Outlier Debrief, our weekly newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week. Follow Outlier Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy. If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Jenna Hannon is the Founder at Supermassiv. She led marketing at Uber Eats and is now building Supermassiv to help artists make real money. We talk about teaching kitesurfing to Elon Musk, how the new CEO changed the culture at Uber, making money with NFTs as a musician, having lunch with Val Kilmer, and more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ CONNECT Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots GUEST LINKS Twitter: https://twitter.com/JennaHannon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennahannon/ Website: https://jennahannon.com/ AngelList: https://angel.co/p/jenna-hannon OUTLINE (0:00) Teaching Elon Musk how to Kitesurf (4:02) Email to new Uber CEO (6:19) How new CEO changed the culture at Uber (10:14) Why quit Uber (12:01) Origin story of Supermassiv (14:35) State of Music Industry (21:45) How TikTok changed Music (25:32) Getting into Crypto back in 2011 (30:54) What's wrong with NFTs (33:52) Most creative NFTs (36:45) How Artists can make money with NFTs (40:59) How Supermassiv works (47:45) What's Web 2.5 ?? (48:40) The Supermassiv Vision (54:53) Lunch with Val Kilmer TOP EPISODES 71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund 68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan 45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks 10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi) 2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis) Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Kyla is an independent, Gen Z friendly, new-age content creator with a fantastic newsletter and YouTube channel. She wrote her first book “The Little Penguin” in third grade, started options trading at 16, sold cars in college, garnered ~130k followers on TikTok with her finance skits and working with top brands like Morning Brew & Bankless. She's also building a fintech startup in stealth (launching soon). We talk about doing options trading at 16, selling cars in college, the right time to publish on Tiktok, monetary policies, sneak peek into her startup, and more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant 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/kylascan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylascanlon/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylascan/ Website: https://kylascanlon.com/ Newsletter: https://kyla.substack.com/ OUTLINE (0:00) Options Trading at 16 (2:54) How Options Trading works? (5:38) Selling over $1M worth of cars in college (9:41) Writing book in 3rd grade (10:35) Content Creation (14:29) Power of TikTok (19:16) What is the right time to post on TikTok? (20:43) The Fed, Monetary Policies & Inflation (25:33) It's a good time to Buy (27:49) Bullish on Metaverse? (33:57) Building Financial Education Company (34:27) Day in a Life (38:30) Closing first sponsorship deal w/ Morning Brew (40:12) Is Venture Capital a Ponzi Scheme? (42:57) Web4??? (45:10) Elon vs Twitter (47:18) Cheat Codes for Creators TOP EPISODES 71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund 68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan 45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks 10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi) 2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis) Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Adam Jackson is the co-founder of Braintrust - the largest decentralized talent marketplace. Braintrust's mission is to build the world's most impactful talent network — one that is user-owned, aligns incentives, and redistributes value to Talent and Organizations. Previously, Adam founded 4 VC-backed companies, sold 2 of them, and is an angel investor in 100+ companies. We talk about Web2 vs Web3 marketplaces, building a successful governance model, mechanics of DAO, freelance economy, message for Web3 critics, and much more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant 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/adamjacksonsf LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajackson/ Website: http://www.usebraintrust.com/ Portfolio: https://angel.co/p/adamjackson OUTLINE (0:00) Built 4 companies, sold 2 of them (1:31) Solving the Chicken & Egg problem of Marketplaces (4:07) "Dirty little secret" of Web2 Marketplaces (7:43) Venture Capital as a forcing function that leads to fee extraction (9:33) First encounter with Blockchain (10:49) BTRST as a Governance Token (12:52) Is Braintrust a DAO? (14:16) What happens when DAO members don't execute a proposal (16:49) What's working, what's not working (19:55) Role of a DAO Founder (21:18) Value of a Token (22:51) What happens when VCs hold a lot of tokens (23:54) Growing from 0 to 700,000 members during the pandemic (25:32) Convincing Nike, Goldman Sachs & other Web2 co's to get onboard (28:12) Hiring remotely & globally (30:07) How the freelance economy is helping corporate America (33:07) Vetting new Talent (35:05) Coordinating 100+ developers to build DAO (41:19) How many tokens does Adam own? (42:00) Crypto Twitter (46:24) Are you buying the dip? (46:49) Message for Web3 Critics TOP EPISODES 71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund 68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin 62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan 45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks 10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi) 2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis) Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Ryan Duffy is the Founding Editor of Payload Space, a digital media outfit covering the business and policy of space. Previously, he worked at Morning Brew where he launched their second product, Emerging Tech Brew. Over three years Ryan was at the Brew, the newsletter grew to a subscriber base of 300,000+, all while maintaining industry-leading open rates. We talk about getting detained by the UN in Haiti, time at Morning Brew, scaling Emerging Tech Brew from 0 to 300K readers and a lot of space meta trends. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant 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/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.

Janis Ozolins is an Illustrator with over 38,000 followers on Twitter. His work have been seen by millions of people and led him to work for Naval Ravikant, Steven Bartlett, Matt D'Avella, Shaan Puri, Julian Shapiro and others. We talk about life after school, selling his first product as a creator, and going full time into creating visuals on Twitter. He also shared advice for beginners such as what platform to pick, how to start, etc. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant 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/OzolinsJanis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozolinsjanis/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jaozolins Website: https://bio.link/ozo OUTLINE (00:00) Life in School (01:32) From selling bikes to becoming IT manager (03:25) The Book that changed my life (08:27) Living by society's default standards (11:33) 3 people who inspired to go all-in into visuals (15:52) Early days of growing on Twitter (19:17) Kids help you cut all the BS in life (22:20) 0 to 40K followers on Twitter (26:53) 50% of the battle is to figure out what to do (29:22) Design Inspirations from James Clear & Jack Butcher (35:20) How to generate ideas (39:43) A day in my life (46:53) Mission might sound cringe, but you need it (50:44) Landing gigs with Julian Shapiro & Shaan Puri (56:14) Shaan Puri's Golden Framework for Creators (01:01:52) Minimalism & Matt D'Avella (01:06:58) My Support System (01:12:40) Creator Economy & upcoming Artists (01:18:02) Leveraged your Time (01:22:39) What social media platform to focus on? (01:25:38) Advice for Creators 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.

Visit https://theygotacquired.com/newsletter   When everyday people hear about space-related news, it's usually in association with an organization like NASA or SpaceX. But while Elon Musk is great at grabbing headlines, the space industry actually comprises a vast constellation of companies that generate hundreds of billions of dollars a year. And it's only set to expand; Morgan Stanley projects it'll reach $1.25 trillion by 2040.   Given the size and growth of this industry, it's probably a surprise to no one who listens to this podcast that there's an enormous opportunity for the B2B media outlets that cover it. One of the most exciting entrants into that space is Payload, a daily newsletter that launched in 2021.   Though Payload was bootstrapped for its first several months, it announced a $650,000 seed round last year that was led by Winklevoss Capital, the venture firm run by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. It's since hired an editorial staff and landed its first major sponsors.   Payload was founded by Mo Islam and Ari Lewis, and in December 2021 I interviewed Mo about the newsletter's origin, its audience development strategy, and its plans to monetize its influential readership.

Danielle Strachman is Founder and General Partner at 1517. She was also the founding member and program director of Theil Fellowship. We discussed about building our own school, convincing children to study, building Theil Fellowship from ground up, handing out $100k to 17-year-old kids, starting a venture capital firm, early days with founder of OYO and Figma and much more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant 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 Follow Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Follow Danielle Strachman: Twitter/LinkedIn/Instagram 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 about his experience working with Shaan Puri, building various products, getting acquired by biggest livestreaming platform, managing high school & full-time job & much more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ OUTLINE (0:00) Origin Story (6:46) First day in a startup as a 14 year old (10:40) Rapid prototyping to find the next billion dollar idea (12:45) Managing High school & writing code for a multi-million dollar startup (16:35) Convincing parents to drop academics (18:02) Shaan Puri - Frameworks king (25:10) Director of Operations at 16 (30:02) Getting acquired by Twitch (Amazon) (34:17) Interviewing for getting acqui-hired (36:44) Learnings from building B2C products (51:42) Lean Team at Zeet CONNECT Follow Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga Follow Johnny Dallas: Twitter: https://twitter.com/_johnnydallas_ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theonlyjohnny/ TOP EPISODES #68 Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin #62 Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan #45 Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks #10 Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi) #2 Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis) Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

John Howard is the founder of Slingshot. Slingshot is a swag company that leads to more sales calls, and more shout-outs on social media. We discuss how John sold his design agency, built Slingshot, how it evolved over the years, executing Adobe's viral Twitter campaign, bootstrapping, and much more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https://recast.studio/ CONNECT Follow John Howard: Twitter / LinkedIn Follow Prashant Bagga 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) Build Slingshot (23:28) How Slingshot grew up (26:33) Adobe's Viral Twitter campaign (35:22) Growth rate of Slingshot (44:07) Most popular swag (51:12) John's sales experience (01:08:28) Bootstrapping Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Natalie Brunell is the host of Coin Stories Podcast. She is also an educator & media commentator in the Bitcoin space. Her popular show, Coin Stories, features interviews with Bitcoin thought leaders about their backgrounds and conviction for BTC. She is also a video contributor to Bitcoin Magazine. We discuss Natalie's transition from journalism to podcasting, being bullish on Bitcoin, how Bitcoin can lead us to a better world, the role of other cryptocurrencies, the future of censorship, the adoption of cryptocurrencies due to war, and more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant 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 Follow Natalie Brunell: Website / Twitter / LinkedIn / Instagram / YouTube Follow Prashant Bagga 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.

A² The Show - Ep 390 Feat. Mo Islam 00:00 Saudi Arabia is changing 11:34 The Mo Show 16:19 Is Saudi Arabia facing westernization? 30:50 Marketing tips 37:20 Follow your passion 43:10 Moshow the cat rapper 48:25 Information is becoming decentralized The Moshow podcast provides a front-row seat to what life in modern day Saudi Arabia is all about, whilst shedding light on the progression and accomplishments of the country told by those on the ground who share their personal stories and experiences. A2 The Show celebrates the world's most excellent individuals. 3 guys on 3 different continents, Ali Haajl, Ali Al Shammari, and Saeed Jammal have created a world community of thought leaders and experts. Our guests are from all walks of life: engineers, comedians, journalists, rockstars, civil right activists, artists. entrepreneurs, from Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America and Australia. Seek the knowledge

Suumit Shah is the CEO & founder of Dukaan - a $100M startup which enables merchants to set up online stores and sell products digitally. We talk about building a fast-growing startup during the pandemic, how Dukaan helped millions of small businesses go online, the Shark Tank India effect, hiring a badass team, making $25,000 per month in college & more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant 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 Follow Suumit Shah : Twitter / LinkedIn / Instagram / Medium Follow Prashant Bagga OUTLINE (0:00) Growing Dukaan at the start of pandemic (4:50) Dukaan vs Amazon (7:55) Why Shopify lost to Dukaan in India (11:01) Unlocking growth for new merchants (13:20) Why WhatsApp Business won't be successful (17:59) When a Dukaan merchant went on Shark Tank (20:45) The Shark Tank India Effect (26:06) Why no WFH option (28:21) The Recursive Hiring Strategy (29:41) Expanding to 150 countries (34:45) The Clickbaity Tagline - Launch store in 30 secs (36:10) Dukaan-Tech category (39:03) Making $25K/month in college (44:38) Making $3M in the first year of SEO agency (47:48) How to Win the SEO Game (58:14) The dark side of SEO agencies (1:02:23) How does money change your life? (1:05:33) Time & Productivity (1:07:41) Wanna work at Dukaan? Stand out with this one skill 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Wanted to take this time to thank everyone who were patient with me on my releasing schedule. It took a while , However I am back and ready to post more frequently this time around. All love to everyone, shout out to Annati_1 for her cooking show. Rakan, the audio quality is for you on this episode. Hope you guys learn something new and this helps you. This wont be the last time you hear from Mo Islam we will have more episodes to come in the foreseeable future.

Mo Islam is the co-founder and CEO of Payload, a space media company that covers the business and politics of space. Prior to Payload, Mo Islam was a senior member of Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan's institutional asset platform, where he raised over $250 million in strategic capital for growth-stage technology companies. Payload has received a seed round of $650,000, primarily from Winklevoss Capital, the venture firm led by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, as well as Andy Weissman and Sam McIngvale. In this episode, Ben and Mo talk about the parallels between crypto and a space startup, and how the space industry is growing faster than ever. 00:18 Welcome to episode 26 - Mo Islam & Payload 01:20 Bringing on Mo 02:00 What's been going on for Mo 02:52 What is Payload? 04:25 Who is the target market for Payload? 07:34 How did Mo meet Ari? 09:50 Synergies between Crypto and a Space Start up? 13:10 Payloads investor group 16:15 How Payload plan on growing? 19:40 Payload website strategy 22:34 Types of media - where does Payload sit? 28:00 Where do's Mo see Payload going in 5-7 years? 30:38 What Mo does in his spare time 33:00 Wrap Up/Outro Social Media Subscribe to: https://payloadspace.com/news/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/payloadspace Stay connected with us! Use #Astroben across various social media platforms to engage with us! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astrobenpodcast/ Website (coming soon): www.astroben.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/gambleonit?lang=en Please subscribe and rate - Ad Astra!

Did you know that there are still $130B in SPACs out there waiting to find the right targets? Mo Islam, Co-Founder at Payload Space joined us to tell us about why there is a need for more extensive coverage of news happening in the space industry today, and how he expects future investments to shape the industry as a whole.

Mo started his career in Wall Street, where he conducted research in the space industry and then, started Payload Space to cover the new innovations in space. We talk about the space hype, US vs China, Elon Musk, solving space debris and more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant 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 Follow Prashant Bagga Mo: Twitter / LinkedIn / Payload Twitter / Payload Website OUTLINE (00:32) Origin Story of Space Newsletter (03:49) Why Space (06:19) Why the space hype (11:20) How vertical integration brought costs down (13:45) Did Elon Musk single-handedly accelerate space industry (17:58) US vs China space industry (20:51) Angel Investing in space (24:52) Space business model to look out for (28:17) Module misfiring in International Space Station (30:22) Solving space debris (32:42) New grads working in space companies (36:12) Future of Payload (42:51) Benefit of space research (46:13) Content Business Model --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

My guest this week is Mo Islam from Payload Space, a new space focused media company. If you are like me, you are always on the lookout for where to get your space news from –besides this podcast of course. The Payload email newsletter, which is their first product, is one of my favorites - sign up here. They recently closed their seed getting money from a number of investors, including the Winklevoss twins and are now gearing up to expand. Mo will tell us all about it. Enjoy! If you have comments or questions about the episode, email us at spacebusinesspodcast@gmail.com or post them on our Twitter (@podcast_space). If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on your favorite podcast app - we highly appreciate it! The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics and produced in partnership with the International Space University (ISU). Follow the podcast on Twitter @podcast_space If you got interested in learning more about the business opportunities in space, check out my online course at https://www.udemy.com/course/space-entrepreneurship/ If you speak German, also check out my recently published introductory book on the space economy. Episode Notes 0:00 Intro 2:00 Payload Space origins and The "media gap" in covering the space sector 9:54 The parallels to Crypto 14:30 Content strategy 20:47 Free vs Paid 28:18 Geographic target region 33:59 Finding experts and hiring people 37:56 The jump from weekly to daily content 40:31 Favorite stories 47:03 If you weren't doing Payload Space, what would you be doing? 47:42 Sci-Fi

To celebrate Saudi National Day, host and founder Mo Islam sits on the other side of the table and is interviewed by his first guest and long time friend, Mo Moharrak. They discuss the growth and success of The Mo Show Podcast, answer questions submitted by some of the last 35 guests, and Mo explains why he started the show and what he's learned from the past year.