Huma CEO: Dan Vahdat

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 APIThey discuss:00:00 - Intro02:10 - Communicating with @EmmanuelMacron and @kmitsotakis08:55 - Why are Greece and Persia not empires today13:40 - How the best people look like18:30 - Short-term vs long-term thinking24:27 - Dropping out of PhD26:57 - The first months of Huma32:00 - Early days32:27 - 'I never had the ego of being turned down'34:00 - First customers37:21 - How to price expensive contracts48:30 - Regulation as a moat59:10 - Raising $300m from partners instead of VC1:02:58 - AI1:06:00 - Storytelling advice1:09:55 - Running1:14:32 - Cyrus, Darius, and Achaemenid inspirations1:19:23 - The future