Venture Bros

Aziz & Mo discuss the growing importance and use cases of NFTs and how that blends in perfectly with how metaverses become an extension of human economic behavior. Also, metaverse wars and pandemics are a thing...

Aziz & Mo discuss how markets and startups are responding to the energy crisis, and we discuss nuclear energy with enough detail to wind up on a list somewhere. Hi, Special Agent Stevens!

Aziz & Mo are back from hiatus and discuss everything from Mo's newfound vegetarianism and the origins of biotech. 

Mo dropped out because he got a case of the bubblies after a bad shawarma, so Hussain and Aziz go over the top headlines from the last few days. Yup, new format! If you like it, we'll do it again. If not, Hussain will be executed live on the next episode.

We're joined by Hussain Haji, a serial entrepreneur (a title he hates), to discuss his experience getting 2 exits as a MENA founder, what happens to the middle tier of a MENA VC's portfolio, and we both make Mo laugh hard enough to wet himself while discussing semi-serious topics.

Aziz mansplains stablecoins to Mo, then he explains how crypto regulations are sort of like the UFC in the early days, Mo discusses how he’s going to navigate the down market as a founder, and we both discuss whether Do Kwon can be a “war time CEO” like GW Bush was in 2002 (but not exactly)…

Aziz & Mo join Aidan Gold of HyperChange//HyperGuap VC to discuss what VC has become and how it should return to its roots of making moonshot bets on ideas that could change the trajectory of humanity for the better... 

You May Not Know If You're Any Good At This Business For Many Years After You Start, International Startup News & Valuations Don't Necessarily Correlate with the US, & We Go Over Some Of The Many Ways Startups Die

Mo & Aziz Cover The Latest Updates On Musk's Twitter Takeover, We Dive Into Musk's History As CEO Of Tesla & SpaceX, & We Discuss What The Future Looks Like For Twitter With Musk At The Helm

Elon Musk Becomes Twitter's Largest Shareholder, Jeff Bezos Is The Pot Calling The Kettle Black, Opinions On Censorship Aren't Binary But Rather A Spectrum, and Sweeeeeeet Caroliiiiiiiiiine...

Fast May Be The First Domino To Fall After The Insanity Of 2021, Founders Who Were All Talk Suddenly Couldn't Walk The Walk, The Market Kinda Looks Like Its Going To $#!t The Bed, & Some General Macroeconomic News, Opinions, Fear Mongering, Saber Rattling, & Existential Crises

Mo & Aziz Reminisce On Baseball And Perfect Games, We Discuss The Latest On President Biden's Crypto Executive Order, & How The Web3 Community Will React

Corporate Affairs Clashing With Foreign Policy, The New Normal Of Financial "Deplatforming", Startup Autonomy In The Face Of Political Dissent, & How Modern Sanctions Are Toothless Without Tech

War Has Always Incentivized Massive Technological Breakthroughs, How Some Are Trying To Engineer Similar Incentive Structures To Get The Same Results Without Violence, & Inventions You Probably Did Not Know Came From Conflict

Nothing In Startups Works The Way It Did Before The Pandemic, Maintaining Culture Is A Bit Harder When You Can Only Interact Online, How To Build Remote Teams Without Adverse Selection, Inflation Is Always a Monetary Phenomena, & How Founders Should Navigate Price Instability

Mo and Aziz Reminisce On The Early Days Of COVID Contagion In Los Angeles, & We Discuss Our Experiences With VCs Of Different Kinds...

We're joined today by Lloyed Lobo, the founder of Boast.ai. Boast automates the process of claiming R&D tax credits for businesses of all sizes across the United States and Canada. We discuss what it was like to grow up in Kuwait before joining the startup scene in Silicon Valley.

Massive Foreign Rounds In Local Startups Like Lean & Rain Financial, The Region's Laws Start To Modernize, Kuwait's Central Bank Opens The Door To Neo Banks, & What This All Means For Capital Mobility In The Near Future...

We're joined today by Jason Rodrigues, a Partner at Celo leading founder programs focused on expanding the global ecosystem of startups, DApps, developers, and users on the Celo blockchain.We discuss the growing crypto scene in Dubai, the latest in web3 news, and more...

Mo Got COVID, Vitalik Buterin + Elon Musk Formally Support Dogecoin, & The Dogecoin Foundation Releases A "Trailmap" Of Some Pretty Cool Updates For World's Favorite Crypto...Support The Show With $DOGE... DEzWAKVfhZGxQP688DnPbyNYv7fqi6vRx8