Billion Moonshots

Prashant Bagga
Billion Moonshots Podcast

making friends in web3! • hosted founder of a billion-dollar startup, a bitcoin maxi & a crypto journalist • been ranked top 15 on apple podcasts socials: www.linktr.ee/billionmoonshots

  1. 06/05/2023

    97: Building web3 Mobile Phone | Andrew Watson, Senior Android Developer at Solana Mobile

    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.

    45 min
  2. 24/04/2023

    96: Account Abstraction 101 | Michael Messele, Founder of Etherspot.io

    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.

    44 min
  3. 08/04/2023

    95: Own your Professional Credentials | Wojtek, Founder of Mazury.xyz

    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.

    52 min
  4. 05/03/2023

    94: Personal Tokens | Christopher Robison, Founder of meTokens

    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.

    1h 4m
  5. 05/03/2023

    93: Simplifying Web3 Onboarding | Arman & Parker, Founders of Peaze

    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.

    54 min
  6. 05/03/2023

    92: Block the Crypto Scammers | Tristen Larsen, CEO of Blockem AI

    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.

    1h 1m
  7. 05/03/2023

    91: Web3 Zoom is here!! | Ayush Ranjan, Co-Founder of Huddle01 [Hindi]

    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.

    44 min
  8. 05/03/2023

    90: From Dropout to Raising 4 Million Dollars | Pei Li, Co-Founder of Venue

    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.

    42 min

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making friends in web3! • hosted founder of a billion-dollar startup, a bitcoin maxi & a crypto journalist • been ranked top 15 on apple podcasts socials: www.linktr.ee/billionmoonshots

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