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Sheel Mohnot

Co-Founder & General Partner, Better Tomorrow Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sheel Mohnot is a co-founder and General Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, an early-stage fintech fund. He previously led 500 Fintech and has been an active angel investor and podcast panelist.

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2 predictions · 3 assertions · 2 opinions · 2 insights · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Sheel argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Mohnot: The Jones Act is highly protectionist to US shipbuilding
“So like the Jones Act basically says that if you, if you're shipping goods between two U.S. Ports, you need to use a U.S. Built ship crewed by U.S. Citizens and owned by U.S. Citizens. So like it's super protectionist to the U.S. Shipbuilding industry and U.S.…”
Sheel Mohnot Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 2:41 GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th

Everything Sheel Mohnot said on TBPN that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Mohnot: Mega-funds writing small seed checks make a strategic mistake
“If you're a multi-billion dollar fund, and you write a two million dollar check into, to a company, and you invested in the wrong company in the category, Like, you don't get a chance to write a two hundred fifty million dollar check into the right company. So…”
Sheel Mohnot Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 19:09 GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
Opinion
Mohnot: Trump tariffs aim for reshoring, not reciprocal trade
“I think that's bullshit because, like, you have Lutnik saying, like, we need millions of Americans screwing in tiny iPhones or whatever. And you, and they also say that the tariffs are going to replace income taxes. So if those things are true, then it's not a…”
Sheel Mohnot Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 3:53 GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mohnot: US regulations prevent AI from revolutionizing credit underwriting
“So anyway, I think it can be used and can be super useful, but because of those regulatory bound like guidelines, I'm not sure it's going to like be a step change in underwriting.”
Sheel Mohnot Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 27:28 GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
Assertion Supported
Mohnot: The Jones Act is highly protectionist to US shipbuilding
“So like the Jones Act basically says that if you, if you're shipping goods between two U.S. Ports, you need to use a U.S. Built ship crewed by U.S. Citizens and owned by U.S. Citizens. So like it's super protectionist to the U.S. Shipbuilding industry and U.S.…”
Sheel Mohnot Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 2:41 GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
Opinion
Mohnot: China is an enemy and should not get US data
“China specifically, I do think China's playing unfairly and they're our enemy and we shouldn't let our enemy get data on the United States.”
Sheel Mohnot Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 6:03 GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
Assertion Supported
Mohnot: Seed valuations have trended in a straight line upwards since 2021
“Seed valuations have actually increased from that time, and it's basically kind of been like a straight line upwards, and what he's talking about actually started happening in twenty-twenty-two”
Sheel Mohnot Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 19:09 GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mohnot: Skeptical seed round valuations will re-accelerate over next year
“I'm skeptical that this is gonna happen again. Or that it's gonna re-accelerate and prices are gonna go up. I don't know. We'll see. Well, we should make a bet and have Peter Walker from Carta give us the data in a year.”
Sheel Mohnot Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 19:59 GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
What-if
Mohnot: Circle stock would have surged during Stripe's Bridge acquisition hype
“And I bet if circle was public at that point, they would have gotten a huge bump for no particular reason.”
Sheel Mohnot Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 9:42 GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
Insight
Mohnot: High tariffs are especially dangerous for Klarna's BNPL model
“Like the thing is these tariffs are especially, especially bad for Klarna, right? Like, It's consumer discretionary spend that you use BNPL on and consumer discretionary spend in a recession or with high tariffs, like goes, goes to the toilet.”
Sheel Mohnot Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 10:01 GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
Assertion Supported
Mohnot: Stripe deprecated its corporate card and invested in Ramp
“Stripe had built RAM. Stripe had a corporate card. And it didn't work. Like, they ended up investing in RAM and deprecating that card.”
Sheel Mohnot Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 23:06 GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th

The other half of the tape: Sheel Mohnot's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 29 times in 13 episodes on TBPN. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most John Coogan 18

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2026 17 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
2025 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2024 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th Apr 10, 2025 12m
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