75: Selling Cars, Content Creation & Landing Top Brand Deals | Kyla Scanlon

Billion Moonshots

Kyla is an independent, Gen Z friendly, new-age content creator with a fantastic newsletter and YouTube channel. She wrote her first book “The Little Penguin” in third grade, started options trading at 16, sold cars in college, garnered ~130k followers on TikTok with her finance skits and working with top brands like Morning Brew & Bankless. She's also building a fintech startup in stealth (launching soon).

We talk about doing options trading at 16, selling cars in college, the right time to publish on Tiktok, monetary policies, sneak peek into her startup, and more.

SPONSORS

BridgeUp: DM Prashant on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital

Listnr.fm: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant

Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/

Recast: https://recast.studio/

CONNECT

Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga

Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots

GUEST LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kylascan

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylascanlon/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylascan/

Website: https://kylascanlon.com/

Newsletter: https://kyla.substack.com/

OUTLINE

(0:00) Options Trading at 16

(2:54) How Options Trading works?

(5:38) Selling over $1M worth of cars in college

(9:41) Writing book in 3rd grade

(10:35) Content Creation

(14:29) Power of TikTok

(19:16) What is the right time to post on TikTok?

(20:43) The Fed, Monetary Policies & Inflation

(25:33) It's a good time to Buy

(27:49) Bullish on Metaverse?

(33:57) Building Financial Education Company

(34:27) Day in Life!

(38:30) Closing first sponsorship deal w/ Morning Brew

(40:12) Is Venture Capital a Ponzi Scheme?

(42:57) Web4???

(45:10) Elon vs Twitter

(47:18) Cheat Codes for Creators

TOP EPISODES

71: Danielle Strachman, Founder & General Partner of 1517 Fund

68: Natalie Brunell on Everything Bitcoin

62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan

45: Suhas Motwani, Founder of The Product Folks

10: Aryaman Maheshwari, Software Engineer at Google (Hindi)

2: Shanaya Bagga (my lil sis)

Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.