The first Iranian entrepreneur to build a company worth over $1B in Europe, Dan Vahdat, founder of Huma, is joining Kyriakos Eleftheriou, founder of Terra API They discuss: 00:00 - Intro 02:10 - Communicating with @EmmanuelMacron and @kmitsotakis 08:55 - Why are Greece and Persia not empires today 13:40 - How the best people look like 18:30 - Short-term vs long-term thinking 24:27 - Dropping out of PhD 26:57 - The first months of Huma 32:00 - Early days 32:27 - 'I never had the ego of being turned down' 34:00 - First customers 37:21 - How to price expensive contracts 48:30 - Regulation as a moat 59:10 - Raising $300m from partners instead of VC 1:02:58 - AI 1:06:00 - Storytelling advice 1:09:55 - Running 1:14:32 - Cyrus, Darius, and Achaemenid inspirations 1:19:23 - The future Rss Apple Podcaster →
