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97: Building web3 Mobile Phone | Andrew Watson, Senior Android Developer at Solana Mobile
2023/05/06
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.
96: Account Abstraction 101 | Michael Messele, Founder of Etherspot.io
2023/04/24
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.
95: Own your Professional Credentials | Wojtek, Founder of Mazury.xyz
2023/04/08
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.
94: Personal Tokens | Christopher Robison, Founder of meTokens
2023/03/05
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.
93: Simplifying Web3 Onboarding | Arman & Parker, Founders of Peaze
2023/03/05
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.
92: Block the Crypto Scammers | Tristen Larsen, CEO of Blockem AI
2023/03/05
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.
91: Web3 Zoom is here!! | Ayush Ranjan, Co-Founder of Huddle01 [Hindi]
2023/03/05
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.
90: From Dropout to Raising 4 Million Dollars | Pei Li, Co-Founder of Venue
2023/03/05
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.
89: He is building a Factory in Space !! | Delian Asparouhov, Founder of Varda Space Industries
2023/03/05
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.
88: Control your data & Earn Royalties | Sukhman Dulay, Co-founder of Cyder
2023/03/05
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.
87: Real Talk with Shane Mac | President of XMTP Labs
2023/03/04
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.
86: From scaling Morning Brew to building Newsletter Platform | Tyler Denk, CEO of beehiiv
2023/03/04
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.
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