Topics Discussed:
- COVID-19 Cases Are Dropping Fast
- Prince Jazz Funk Sessions 1977 Instrumental
- $75 MILLION dollars!
- I got some loans to pay off.
- “Sheel, that’s your cue”!
- 1 bedroom cardboard box.
- Our meeting part 2 (Sheel’s Selected Salon Session).
- No Beach Boys.
- ADD? ADHD? HD? Diagnosed?
- “I’m totally monopolizing the conversation”.
- Sheel and Dan are BOTH music video stars!
- The origins of the Zoom Bachelor.
- Scooter Braun, manager to Ariana and The Beebs.
- “Stuck With U” 2 minutes in.
- Dan: Man #1 on bus: Macy Grey’s “I try“.
- 9 hours for 3 seconds.
- “The loser from one gets to be the person for the next.”
- Dan’s typical weekend.
- The Zoom Bachelor effect.
- “Part of being a venture capitalist is just having people think of you.”
- “I’m super busy when people call. If you’re not callin’, I’m not super busy!”
- Are VC’s in need of pitches?
- “There’s a number issue … there’s a quality issue.”
- “Every day there are 30 people that reach out to me.”
- “What is a quality pitch?”
- “Overall there are six things.”
- Team
- Technology (advantage)
- Trends / TAM (Total Addressable Market)
- Traction
- Terms
- Taproom Buddy
- “This is my bullet point list.”
- The four richest Latvians.
- Tap Room Buddy!
- Pitching Sheel
- Fintech service
- Send a beer
- We’re using:
- AI
- Big Data
- Artificial Intelligence (twice, clearly)
- Machine Lurging
- Lurging Against the Machine
- Augmented Reality AND Virtual Reality
- Facial Recognition
- Blockchain pays for the beverage of choice
- Google’s Automated Car.
- #micdrop
- Send me the MONEY SHEEL!
- We’re done with this podcast.
- Tangentialize.
- Sheel’s Other. (Hint: The Lockdown Cook Book is coming soon!)
- Cooking with Marijuana.
- Calling your dealer for Paprika.
- “What is it with you VC’s and SECRET SAUCE?”
- “Everybody’s going to see your naked body again.”
- “Can I see YOUR naked body Sheel?”
- Noisily is going ahead.
- Loud thumping music.
- “I’m unfattening right now.”
- “What do you miss the most and the least about being an entrepreneur?”
- Making the leap from entrepreneur to VC is like taking a GIANT Prozac.
- In order to be a success VC, do I need to be an entrepreneur first?
- How do I step up and become a VC?
- “Not this podcast with me. This is junk. This is absolute shit.”
- Due Diligence.
- Business idea number 2!
- The Origins of The Pitch.
- Sheelbi-wan Kenobi.
- How to sell out.
- Chris Sacca nails it.
- The Shark Tank, The Zoom Bachelor
- “I do the shittier version of something that’s on TV.”
- A towel with a hole in it.
- What’s 5k amongst friends?
- “Hi, here’s the holy grail. Sorry, what’s the holy grail?”
- “We didn’t grow up, but we wised up.” – Mike D.
- Why Fintech?
- “Financial Services Suck!” – Sheel Mohnot
- “Research, muthafucka!” – Dan Taylor
- Loan sharking is EXPENSIVE!
- Isn’t Fintech just another way of saying, “We want to be your bank?”
- Flip it material.
- Not every Fintech is a bank, but every bank has components of Fintech.
- I’m winging it.
- Klarna is getting into the “we want to be your full on bank” in the U.S.
- Why do we still need banks?
- Dan’s mom’s head explodes!
- He’s sending his money to a Nigerian Prince.
- The symbiotic relationship between Banks and Fintech.
- Is the Fintech industry simply chum for the sharks?
- The LIGHTENING ROUND!
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- Aaaaaaand we’re back!
- Sheel’s journey to VC. (Hint: He gambled his own money.)
- Soup to salad? Salad to soup? Nuts to bolts?
- “These guys are awesome. They’ve got the money, they tell me what to do.”
- The fake fund called 500 Fintech.
- “You ask rich people for money.”
- “We raised 75 Million bucks, and here we are.”
- Bravo, Brava, and Bravi.
- Bravia, it’s an excellent car.
- “Bitch, please. Opera singer, ok?”
- Nessun Dorma / Heidenröslein (Want more? Here you go).
- Sleeping in a park. Across the street from the hotel.
- Atlanta has a LOT of conferences! In July.
- Bearish or Bullish?
- Technology has done really well.
- A lightning-ette round
- Wisest?
- Stupidest?
- Craziest?
- Sheel is one helluva barber.
- I’ll bring the clippers!
- Dan’s girlfriend gets the vaccine!
- Sheel forces a beer down his throat.
- August 27th, 2021.
- Dan’s phone number.
- Francis Underwood. Bill Clinton.
- Sheel’s gotta go close a $25m deal.
- From Nick: “How will you ensure your portfolio companies are making tomorrow better, and not worse?”
- From Ramit (via email): “Blockchain.com just raised $120m. They say 65m wallets have been created. And yet India and Nigeria are moving to ban Bitcoin and other private crypto’s. Sheel, in your opinion, where is all this going?”
- Old tweets from Sheel. He’s not a good fortune teller.
- Sheel, I was singing.
- “If I had bought FIVE bitcoins. Which would have been $3.50”. $270,000 today.
- “How did you get so DAMN GOOD LOOKING?”
- Jack’s beard.
- “Any last thought?” “No.”
- You’re really good at this.
- Sheel is hitched. Not HITCHED. Don’t run for the hills! Unavailable.
- She said NO!
- The pandemic has been rough. I’m desperate.
- One helluva movie script.
- Give me a Kiss to Build a Dream On.
- Hire this man!
- Sheel … take us out.
- 1.2 million followers on Clubhouse!
- The Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Where to Find Us:
Find Sheel at:
Clubhouse: @sheel
Find Dan at:
Clubhouse: @dantelor