Billion Moonshots

Mia and Roshni are co-founders at GOmana, a virtual travel agency that helps students find, apply and plan for their abroad experience. In this episode, Mia talks about her immigrant experience in Canada, Roshini talks about being first in family to get a university degree, why it’s important to know your co-founders outside of work and how the transition from art to tech is very possible now. 

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(00:32) How Mia and Roshni met 

(02:57) The Immigrant Experience 

(08:50) From Roommates to Co-Founders 

(15:10) What do they love about each other 

(20:20) Transitioning from Art to Tech 

(25:50) The road not taken. 

(27:50) How GOmana happened 

(36:20) When to look for a Co-Founder 

(40:04) Future plans for GOmana

Pratyush is the founder of Foyer, a startup focused on building tools to simplify meetings . He is an alumni of IIT Kanpur and was an associate at BCG. In this episode, we speak about unique customers, choosing the problem to solve and when to stop businesses. 

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(00:32) Foyer's Origin Story

(11:48) Building unique customers

(14:21) Learnings from BCG

(17:45) Choosing the problem to solve

(29:36) Uptick in Fashion sense

(36:12) Closing down fashion idea

(44:58) Pivoting to org tools

(50:18) Jira and organizational tools

(01:00:17) Mighty Browser

(01:06:10) Interesting things on Twitter

(01:10:09) Theranos Trial

Divyanshu Agarwal, a graduate of IIT Bhilai, currently works in Snazzy, a Y-Combinator funded startup as a growth manager. In this episode, we talk about his time at IIT, how to market effectively and the importance of building personal brands.

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(00:32) Divyanshu’s time at IIT.

(14:40) Beyond academics.

(19:00) Work culture at MNCs vs startups

(23:30) Why marketing?

(28:50) Airrack and influencing strategies.

(31:15) Marketing tips from Divyanshu

(38:05) The importance of gratitude.

(40:15) Learnings from work (Snazzy)

(1:04:00) Exploring twitter.

(1:17:30) Personal branding.

Ned Nadima is the founder of Friska Labs, an open, programmable ledger for biomarkers. In this episode we speak about longevity tech, research in the space, Ned's startup  and much more! Tune in to find out.

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(00:32) Big Lie of aging 

(06:06) Achieving longevity

(10:18) Implications of living longer

(22:46) Longevity research

(29:29) Recreating mammoths

(31:57) OnDeck fellowship

(34:08) Commerce to longevity tech

(39:05) Friska Labs

(49:34) Behind the idea

(56:40) Future of healthcare

Ch Daniel is the founder of Legitcheck.app, an online service to check the authenticity of resale products. He scaled it to $22.5k per month. In this episode, we talk about how he built a business doing over $20k a month in revenue, micro-acquisitions, the sneaker industry and much more!

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(00:32) How Legit Check started

(04:07) The Sneaker Industry

(06:52) Growth of Legit Check

(15:57) Before going full-time

(20:10) How Search Helped

(23:08) Emojics.com and its acquisition

(30:56) Micro-acquisitions

Vinay Katiyar is the founder of Leadder. We talk about growing Twitter following, launching an outreach agency, profitable SEO businesses, hiring, making money on Twitter and more.

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(00:32) Twitter Growth

Mehul Fanawala is the founder of The Clueless Company. We talk about adapting to the new world at the start of the pandemic, resigning, figuring out what’s next, sales, building systems, follow-ups and Twitter.

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(00:32) From Employee to Founder during Covid

Anan Batra is Founder and CEO of Listnr.tech and Listnr.fm - end-to-end podcasting platform. We talk about competitors, podcasting consumption trends, team building, launching lifetime deal, initial user feedback, SEO, Twitter and more.

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(00:32) Why Entrepreneurship

(03:18) Origin of Listnr.tech

(06:28) Competitors

(09:56) Podcast Trends

(17:47) Starting Company Podcast

(22:22) Building team of interns

(26:46) Launching Lifetime Deal

(30:45) Adblocker's crazy story

(32:10) Initial User Feedback

(34:25) Launch Day Sales

(37:18) Current Team

(40:54) My First Million Podcast

(45:50) Building SEO

(48:13) Twitter

Jan-Philipp Peters is the founder of BitsForDigits.com - a marketplace for founders seeking partial buyouts. We talk about the recent launch, attending college abroad, finance, big tech, startup, no-code, user acquisition, Twitter, and more.

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(00:32) Product Hunt Launch

Aditya is an early member of The Product Folks - the largest volunteer-driven product management community. He also built Grab Chai over a weekend which has now hosted over 20K+ conversations. We talk about studying marketing, building his first startup, joining TPF, product management, Grab Chai, Twitter, and more.

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(00:32) Studying marketing in college