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 t…

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: ht…

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 …

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, …

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, trans…

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://…

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…

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…

Delian Asparouhov is a principal at the Founders Fund and co-founder of Varda Space Industries, a space manufacturing startup. We talked about juggling between a VC and founder role, the science of space manufacturing, future plans, life of a space factory worker, creating zero-gravity on Earth, hiring from SpaceX, superpower of Peter Thiel, and mo…

Sukhman & his co-founder both worked as data consultants where they helped companies understand their customers. This included analyzing consumer behavior, habits, and demographics. While in these roles they started to see the blatant disregard for consumer privacy to prioritize marketing and profits. The work they did exploited customer data and d…

Shane Mac is building a crypto-native communication protocol for web3. Similar to SMTP for email, XMTP will enable communication between existing crypto wallets via its own independent protocol and decentralized network. XMTP has raised a $20M Series A from a16z Crypto, with participation from strategic angels like Packy McCormick, Alexis Ohanian, …

Tyler Denk led product & growth at Morning Brew, did product stint at Google and then last year, launched beehiiv - a newsletter platform empowering creators to monetize and grow like never before. We talked about building startup in college, dropping Big 4 consulting firm to join Morning Brew, scaling newsletter to 3M subcribers, product managemen…

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. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilut…

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. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.…

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. SP…

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.…

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 fun…

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 i…

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, web…

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. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilut…

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…

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. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to…

Kyla is an independent, Gen Z friendly, new-age content creator with a fantastic newsletter and YouTube channel. She wrote her first book “The Little Penguin” in third grade, started options trading at 16, sold cars in college, garnered ~130k followers on TikTok with her finance skits and working with top brands like Morning Brew & Bankless. She's …

Adam Jackson is the co-founder of Braintrust - the largest decentralized talent marketplace. Braintrust’s mission is to build the world’s most impactful talent network — one that is user-owned, aligns incentives, and redistributes value to Talent and Organizations. Previously, Adam founded 4 VC-backed companies, sold 2 of them, and is an angel inve…

Ryan Duffy is the Founding Editor of Payload Space, a digital media outfit covering the business and policy of space. Previously, he worked at Morning Brew where he launched their second product, Emerging Tech Brew. Over three years Ryan was at the Brew, the newsletter grew to a subscriber base of 300,000+, all while maintaining industry-leading op…

"80% of the people who follow me are in for the ideas and not how beautiful they look" Janis Ozolins is an Illustrator with over 38,000 followers on Twitter. His work have been seen by millions of people and led him to work for Naval Ravikant, Steven Bartlett, Matt D’Avella, Shaan Puri, Julian Shapiro and others. We talk about life after school, se…

Danielle Strachman is Founder and General Partner at 1517. She was also the founding member and program director of Theil Fellowship. We discussed about building our own school, convincing children to study, building Theil Fellowship from ground up, handing out $100k to 17-year-old kids, starting a venture capital firm, early days with founder of O…

Johnny Dallas is the founder of Zeet. Zeet is a developer tool to help less experienced engineers easily deploy and scale their applications. He broke into startups at 14 as a Software Engineer at Bebo (founded by Shaan Puri). A few years later, he was promoted as their Director of Operations, while still being a teenager. When Bebo got acquired by…

John Howard is the founder of Slingshot. Slingshot is a swag company that leads to more sales calls, and more shout-outs on social media. We discuss how John sold his design agency, built Slingshot, how it evolved over the years, executing Adobe's viral Twitter campaign, bootstrapping, and much more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to rai…

Natalie Brunell is a Podcast host at Coin Stories. She has over 220,000 Twitter followers and is an educator in the Bitcoin space. Her popular show, Coin Stories, features interviews with Bitcoin thought leaders about their backgrounds and conviction for BTC. She is also a video contributor to Bitcoin Magazine. We discuss Natalie's transition from …

Evan Chen is an advisor at DropoutDAO and a former Project Lead at Google. We discuss DAOs, protocols, opportunities in Web 3, communities, the future of Web 3, and interesting conversations on Twitter. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://m…

Michael Kliska is Co-Founder & CEO of New Matter, which is the premier men's personal care provider. We discuss New Matter’s Competition, convincing judges, outsourcing vs hiring, starting a new brand, branding, and many more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prash…

William Zhang is an upcoming student at Harvard University. He is interested in AI, Blockchain, API's & Research. We discussed, how he got into Harvard, Bootstrapping vs VCs, Research vs Industry, the dark side of research space, side projects & many more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: …

Justin Jia is the founder & CEO of Project Unicorn. He formerly worked at Blizzard Entertainment as a Project Coordinator. We talk about the concept of project unicorns, hiring people, angel investing trends on Twitter, tax implications, deployment of funds, value of a traditional economics degree & more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter t…

Suumit Shah is the CEO & founder of Dukaan - a $100M startup which enables merchants to set up online stores and sell products digitally. We talk about building a fast-growing startup during the pandemic, how Dukaan helped millions of small businesses go online, the Shark Tank India effect, hiring a badass team, making $25,000 per month in college …

Linda Ahn is a Product Designer at Scotiabank Digital Factory. She runs her own YouTube channel, where she makes videos on UX/Product Design, Lifestyle & career. We talk about Linda’s career switch from medical to design, her side projects, good financial habits, future plans for content creation & more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to…

Kaivalya Gandhi is Senior PM at Yahoo Mail & ex Co-Founder of EPOCH. Kaivalya is an impact-driven technologist passionate about bringing ideas to life. We talk about Kaivalya’s story of EPOCH, How did Kaivalya validate his idea, How EPOCH get contracts from Big Giants (Slack & Reddit), Kaivalya’s biggest learning lessons, and more. SPONSORS BridgeU…

Udit Akhouri is the Co-founder of Aentor and Sttabot. He is a young entrepreneur who has built & scaled multiple ventures. We talk about Udit’s startup journey, how Udit hires & builds team, how one should raise funds in the right way, and more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://lis…

Chirag Taneja is the Co-Founder & CEO of GoKwik - a $600M startup that boosts e-commerce conversions & reduces RTO. We talk about building a food-tech startup, building at large vs small companies, how Shark Tank India helped GoKwik, hybrid working culture, and more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capit…

Xavier Coiffard is the Founder of XVRC Startup studio & Indie Hacker in the challenge of building 6 products in 6 months. We talk about building multiple products, how to build a sustainable community, why marketing is important, Twitter growth strategy, and more. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital …

Dima is a Co-Founder at Pandatron - a startup that supports change management through the use of AI and chatbots. He talks about his startup adventure, what got him into training, and how change has played such a pivotal role in his life so far. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://lis…

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 tra…

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. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital List…

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. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://list…

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. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://…

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! SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ …

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. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/ Recast: https…

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. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant Dukaan: http…

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. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.tech/…

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. SPONSORS BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital Listnr: https://listnr.…