Selected - The Sesamers Podcast

Selected 014 - Sheel Mohnot

Episode Summary

In this episode, Sheel gives us the 6 points to convince a VC to hand over the money, I pitch taproombuddy.com, and we reveal why loan sharking is SO expensive. All this and much, much more in Episode 14 of the Selected podcast!

Episode Notes

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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 mintes 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 successful 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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