Billion Moonshots

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.

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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.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvinkhamseh/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/arvinknft 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arvinknft

Website: soldoutnfts.io

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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.

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Website: https://kurtishanni.com/

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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.

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Website: https://www.smoothmedia.co/

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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, micro mobility strategy of Bounce,  and much more.

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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.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyamoser/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmoserr

Website: https://userp.io/  

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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.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anshulrustagi/ 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshulrustaggi/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnshulRustaggi  

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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.

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CONNECT  

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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      

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.

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GUEST LINKS  

Twitter: https://twitter.com/shashank_kr 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumarshashank/  

CONNECT  

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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.

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.

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CONNECT  

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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.