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
