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Aziz and Mo are back from hiatus and discuss everything from Mo's newfound vegetarianism and the origins of biotech.

Mo dropped out because he got a case of the bubblies after a bad shawarma, so Hussain and Aziz go over the top headlines from the last few days. Yup, new format! If you like it, we'll do it again. If not, Hussain will be executed live on the next episode.

We're joined by Hussain Haji, a serial entrepreneur (a title he hates), to discuss his experience getting 2 exits as a MENA founder, what happens to the middle tier of a MENA VC's portfolio, and we both make Mo laugh hard enough to wet himself while discussing semi-serious topics.

Aziz mansplains stablecoins to Mo, then he explains how crypto regulations are sort of like the UFC in the early days, Mo discusses how he’s going to navigate the down market as a founder, and we both discuss whether Do Kwon can be a “war time CEO” like GW Bush was in 2002 (but not exactly)…

Aziz and Mo join Aidan Gold of HyperChange//HyperGuap VC to discuss what VC has become and how it should return to its roots of making moonshot bets on ideas that could change the trajectory of humanity for the better...

You May Not Know If You're Any Good At This Business For Many Years After You Start, International Startup News and Valuations Don't Necessarily Correlate with the US, and We Go Over Some Of The Many Ways Startups Die

Mo and Aziz Cover The Latest Updates On Musk's Twitter Takeover, We Dive Into Musk's History As CEO Of Tesla and SpaceX, and We Discuss What The Future Looks Like For Twitter With Musk At The Helm

Elon Musk Becomes Twitter's Largest Shareholder, Jeff Bezos Is The Pot Calling The Kettle Black, Opinions On Censorship Aren't Binary But Rather A Spectrum, and Sweeeeeeet Caroliiiiiiiiiine...

Fast May Be The First Domino To Fall After The Insanity Of 2021, Founders Who Were All Talk Suddenly Couldn't Walk The Walk, The Market Kinda Looks Like Its Going To $#!t The Bed, and Some General Macroeconomic News, Opinions, Fear Mongering, Saber Rattling, and Existential Crises

Mo and Aziz Reminisce On Baseball And Perfect Games, We Discuss The Latest On President Biden's Crypto Executive Order, and How The Web3 Community Will React

Corporate Affairs Clashing With Foreign Policy, The New Normal Of Financial "Deplatforming", Startup Autonomy In The Face Of Political Dissent, and How Modern Sanctions Are Toothless Without Tech

War Has Always Incentivized Massive Technological Breakthroughs, How Some Are Trying To Engineer Similar Incentive Structures To Get The Same Results Without Violence, and Inventions You Probably Did Not Know Came From Conflict