Sheel's Unusual Side Quests

Shaan Puri shares a story about Sheel Mohnot's fascinating side quests.

"Sheel tells these stories and you're just kind of like, if you just listen to the stories, you'd be like 'wow this guy is fascinating.' You would never know his day job because Sheel is an epic side quester. His day job is he's a VC, he invests in fintech companies.

The weird thing is that if you listen to him, he's like, 'Oh yeah, I'm taking courses to be a travel agent now so I can access all these travel discounts.' He's been doing that. He's like, 'Yeah, I actually looked at buying the ambassadorship position for being an ambassador of a country because it has these perks.' He's basically your friend who's really good with credit card points but for everything, including credit card points.

He just has all these epic side quests he's gone down. He's like, 'Yeah, I got married in the metaverse and Taco Bell sponsored it.' And, 'Hey, guess what else I did? I started this auction company to go and buy and sell domain endings like dot app.' These aren't even normal businesses, they're just weird side quests that made money.

One story he told was about food delivery. He was like, 'I was interested in this food delivery space. It got really hot - Sprig, etcetera. I was ordering from all of them, but I thought there's no way this thing's making money. So as a side quest, I signed up and became a driver for a month. I drove around, it was amazing. I met all these people and learned the model and realized that this thing's never gonna make money.' He was right - Sprig went out of business, so did all the others. But then he said, 'We could do this other thing, Thistle,' and got his friend to do it. Now Thistle is over a hundred million in revenue."