Billion Moonshots

Billion Moonshots

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Billion Moonshots episodes

  • 45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks - Product Management, Community & Productivity

    Suhas is the founder of The Product Folks - one of the largest volunteer-driven product management communities. He is also building Indistractable - a minimalist Android Launcher that helps you focus. We talk about cold-emailing, landing job in Europe, product management, building TPF, productivity, Twitter, NFT, Web3 and more.


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    OUTLINE

    (00:32) Why is everyone congratulating Suhas right now


    (1:52) Cold-emailing product leaders

    (8:27) Landing product role at PepsiCo in Europe

    (11:07) Origin story of The Product Folks

    (16:42) Why Product Management?

    (19:43) Finding Product Market Fit at TPF

    (23:56) Building a massive volunteer team

    (31:06) Backstage conversations with Product Leaders

    (38:02) New Initiatives at TPF

    (40:49) Define Product Manager

    (43:10) Origin story of Indistractable

    (46:28) Choosing Growth PM vertical

    (49:24) Future of Indistractable

    (53:03) Benefits of building an Android Launcher

    (54:28) Productivity & Philosophy

    (58:46) Twitter Usage

    (01:01:19) Making friends on Twitter

    (01:04:20) NFTs

    (01:08:08) Interesting Web3 Projects

    (01:09:25) Shark Tank India

    (01:10:23) Building-Distribution balance

    1 hr 14 min
  • 44: Brian Wu, CS at Stanford & Associate at Romulus Capital - Drone Delivery startup, VC & Space Tech

    Brian Wu is an Associate at Romulus Capital, CEO at Vetol Drone, and studying CS at Stanford. We talk about starting college at Stanford in 2020, building a ventilator, building a drone delivery startup, venture capital, space tech, and some half-baked ideas.


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    OUTLINE

    (00:32) Starting college at Stanford in 2020

    (02:15) Building Ventilator at the start of the pandemic

    (06:16) Building drone delivery startup for medical relief

    (15:26) Getting into Venture Capital

    (24:24) Laser Focus on Construction Technology

    (32:51) Space Tech

    (47:07) Twitter-verse

    (50:46) Half-baked Startup Ideas

    (57:23) Social Media Usage

    (59:28) Meta (Previously Facebook Company)

    1 hr 3 min
  • 43: Mia Nguyen, Ops at TKS & Co-founder at GOmana - Studying abroad, Philosophies and Twitter

    Mia is Business Operations Associate at The Knowledge Society (TKS) and Co-founder at GOmana. We talk about deciding to study abroad, building GOmana, working at TKS, philosophies, Section 4, Twitter and more.


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    Mia: Twitter / Instagram / LinkedIn 


    OUTLINE

    (00:32) Being a Plant Mom


    (01:38) Coming from Vietnam to Canada

    (07:37) Culture Shock

    (10:21) Origin story of GOmana

    (19:01) Future of GOmana

    (23:41) Working at The Knowledge Society

    (29:10) Philosophical concepts

    (42:28) Taking Section 4 program from Scott Galloway

    (52:56) Twittter-verse

    (59:18) TKS Twitter challenge

    (01:02:05) Best decision in the past one year

    1 hr 5 min
  • 42: Mo Islam, Co-Founder at Payload Space - B2B Media, Space Stations and Elon Musk

    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.


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    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

    52 min
  • 41: Peer Richelsen, Co-CEO at Cal - Opensource, Selling Previous Startup, Future of Calendar

    Peer is Co-founder and Co-CEO at Cal where he is building an open-source scheduling infrastructure. We talk about buying Cal domain name, selling his previous startup to On Deck, benefits of opensource and the future of calendar.


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    OUTLINE

    (0:32) Buying a 3-letter domain name Cal.com


    (5:24) Why Calendly needed to be open-sourced

    (7:07) Selling Lean Hire to On Deck

    (9:51) Origin story of Lean Hire

    (11:50) Favourite On Deck Programs

    (13:34) Validating product

    (16:09) Key Learnings from previous startups

    (20:25) Benefits of Opensource product

    (22:40) Development by Cal vs by opensource community

    (24:07) When Cal transitioned from side project to real company

    (25:45) Finding product-market fit

    (27:45) Target Market

    (28:41) Top Challenge

    (29:43) Future of Cal

    (32:01) Advice for first-time founders

    37 min
  • 40: Justin Nguyen, Founder of Declassified Media - Podcasting, Career Education and Creator Economy

    Justin is the founder of Declassified Media where he provides career education to college students for free. We talk about podcasting, LinkedIn, career cheat codes, TikTok, community, Web3 and more.


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    Justin: Instagram / LinkedIn / Declassified Media = TikTok / Spotify / YouTube / Apple Podcasts


    OUTLINE

    (0:32) Origin Story - Starting GetChoGrindUp


    (2:22) Why Podcast

    (3:33) Creating Content on LinkedIn

    (9:19) LinkedIn Inspiration

    (12:26) Quick story involving founder of Twitch

    (14:28) Ups and Downs with the first podcast

    (18:51) Building Declassified

    (21:29) Choosing Career education

    (25:33) Favourite cheat codes for college

    (29:00) Career Advice is easy

    (33:20) Growing TikTok to 250K followers

    (38:58) Community > Content

    (43:14) Networking for non-drinkers

    (45:20) Declassified Team structure

    (47:13) Podcast Editing

    (51:17) Spending $3000 on a podcast ad

    (53:41) Process of every Declassification Episode

    (59:44) Content Bubbles on the web

    (1:04:07) Creator Economy (Mr. Beast, Khaby Lame, Gary Vee)

    (1:09:03) Web3 (NFT, Career Advice, Learn to Earn, Content Creators, DAO, VC)

    (1:21:20) NFT Scholarship Idea

    (1:25:18) NFT for a Women Accessories Brand

    (1:29:01) Product that automates Content Creation and Distribution

    (1:35:05) Work from home setup designer

    1 hr 40 min
  • 39: Prashant Choubey - Writing everyday for 1200+ days

    Prashant has been consistently putting up content for 1200+ days. We talk about high school struggle, 1200+ writing streak, philosophy, hosting Todcast, daily routine, finding job through Twitter, and more.


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    OUTLINE

    (0:32) Life during and after high school
    (19:26) Starting a writing streak to impress a girl
    (23:20) Choosing topics to write on
    (26:23) Thoughts on Philosophy
    (27:49) Life principles
    (31:43) Process for content creation
    (34:31) Twitter
    (37:11) Creating Todcast on Twitter
    (40:38) Viral Posts
    (43:15) Daily Routine
    (51:08) Sleep Habits
    (53:02) Social Media Usage
    (57:41) Building momentum of doing things everyday
    (59:09) Finding job through Twitter
    (1:04:58) Best Productivity Trick

    1 hr 8 min
  • 38: Anson Yu - Chief of Staff @ Contrary | SWE @ Jam3

    We talk about getting a $100K scholarship, software projects, Twitter, time management, AR/VR and more.


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    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ansonyuu

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anson-y/


    OUTLINE

    (00:32) Getting $100K scholarship


    (3:31) Raising $200K for non-profit

    (7:16) High School experience

    (10:37) Choosing System Design Engineering

    (11:48) Ideal Job

    (18:01) Last movie that made us cry

    (20:08) Building Reflect chrome extension

    (27:11) Shitposting on Twitter

    (29:28) Getting into Contrary Capital

    (30:45) Time management

    (36:17) Indian Entrepreneurship Scene

    (41:07) Industries ripe for disruption

    (43:59) Strategy Course

    (44:56) Jam3 and AR/VR

    (50:18) NFT and web3

    (56:56) Gig economy

    1 hr
  • 37: Brandon Yu - Founder @iAscend | Co-Founder @BioDojo | Research Fellow @UofT

    We talk about YouTube, auto-immune disorders, antibody research, philosophies, giving back and more.


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    Follow Brandon:

    Website: www.brandonyu.me

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrandonOliverYu

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

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


    OUTLINE

    (00:32) Landing job at Jemi


    (07:24) People are more important than product

    (09:40) Starting YouTube channel and creating accountability

    (16:20) Invest in things you frequently use

    (18:36) Life in high school playing jazz and basketball

    (20:40) Dealing with two auto-immune disorders

    (33:19) Diving into heathcare and biology

    (39:18) Research on multimerized antibody platform

    (44:24) Antibody production

    (47:37) Making science accessible

    (54:10) Philosophy

    (1:00:42) Being efficient and daily schedule

    (1:04:59) Giving back

    (1:10:05) Just do it

    (1:11:39) Getting more people involved in biology at young age



    1 hr 16 min
  • 36: Michael Trinh - Co-Founder @BioDojo | Research Assistant @UofTMed

    We talk about Michael's first startup, building BioDojo, interesting concepts in biology, Twitter strategy and much more.


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    Follow Prashant: www.takeme.to/prashant

    Follow Michael:

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelTrinh18

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

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-trinh-791530131/

    Medium: https://michaeltrinh18.medium.com/


    OUTLINE


    (0:32) Building WissenUp at 15

    (4:46) Did people want WissenUp?

    (6:27) Deciding to study Biology

    (10:57) Building BioDojo

    (15:05) First iteration of BioDojo

    (19:08) When online communities get too big

    (25:49) Immunology from a lens of decision-making

    (29:45) RNA sequencing

    (30:52) How mRNA helps decide the structure of a cell

    (36:27) Loyal - Longevity Tech Startup

    (40:10) Longevity Tech

    (44:58) Gut-Brain Access

    (50:31) Secret to a healthy gut

    (52:24) Biohacking

    (55:13) Life at University of Toronto

    (58:38) The problem of finding funds for  Academic Research

    (1:04:50) Value of Twitter

    (1:15:12) Future of Discord

    1 hr 22 min

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