#47: Noah Kagan
The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life
Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Noah Kagan is an entrepreneur, Youtube creator, and author whose company, AppSumo, does $80M+ in annual revenue.
In this episode, Noah explains the framework behind his new book, "Million Dollar Weekend" and walks you through the process of launching 7-figure business in 48 hours.
He even puts Brandon to the test, challenging him to produce a business idea on the spot and call up a potential investor live on air.
Noah also talks about:
- Getting fired as the 30th employee of Facebook and missing out on a giant payday... and why that might have been a good thing
- How to build a $1M business in a weekend (Step 1 is NOT ordering business cards)
- The many, many ways to get rich in today's economy
- Riding on private jets and yachts with billionaire strangers... just because he asked
- How to rewire your brain to get comfortable asking for what you want
- How to take on the "Coffee Challenge" and the power of the mantra "Now, Not How"
- Quickly launching a Docusign competitor with none of his own money
- Why Brandon's wooden sunglasses e-com business failed
- Setting unambitious goals for himself and his business
- The routine he started 3 years ago that makes him a much better leader
- Finding the right spouse or partner
- How to choose coaches in various aspects of business and life
Books mentioned:
- Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan
- A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
- The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
Connect with Noah:
- MillionDollarWeekend.com
- Noah's Youtube channel
- Twitter
- Instagram
- TikTok
Sponsor: Whitestone Coaching with Peter Awad. Text "BetterLife" (one word) to 55444 to connect with Peter.
Noah's Charitable Cause: Funding the purchase of laptops for an underfunded school on Maui
Join the Tribe:
- https://abetterlife.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I don't think people recognize this is what's holding them back from success. |
| 0:05.7 | Yeah. That's probably one of the bigger things to even realize to begin with, which is |
| 0:09.2 | 1,000% Yeah, if you don't ask for things, you're not going to get things. Like I think with my |
| 0:13.1 | dating life in the past, it's always like, I just got what I got. I didn't get what I wanted. |
| 0:17.4 | And to get what you want, you have to know what you want, start, and then you have to ask for it. |
| 0:23.3 | Welcome to A Better Life with Brandon Turner. |
| 0:26.3 | That is me, where world-class guests share their wisdom on building a better life. |
| 0:30.2 | Join me as we explore the habits, the actions, and the beliefs that have guided their journey |
| 0:34.1 | with the aim of helping you apply those lessons to your own. Hey, it's Brandon. |
| 0:55.3 | So I'm a big believer in letting guests be their authentic self and tell their authentic |
| 0:58.9 | story. |
| 0:59.5 | So a quick disclaimer, this episode may have some content or language that might not be for |
| 1:03.4 | little ears. |
| 1:04.0 | So be warned and be prepared for a great episode. |
| 1:09.0 | Noah Kagan, man, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Dude, I'm excited |
| 1:13.2 | about this. I have known you for a long time. I know you as an early, early, early, early, |
| 1:18.3 | early over at Facebook. Would you be a billionaire if that would have stayed? Yes. Okay. Yeah, |
| 1:23.1 | wow, rub it in. Wow, welcome to the show. Let's just start with the heartache. Okay, so I know you guys early at Facebook, early at Mint. |
| 1:30.1 | I know you built Apsumo, which does almost nine figures a year. |
| 1:33.2 | Like, not just a nine figure business, but like you guys ridiculous levels of, yeah, ridiculous. |
| 1:38.2 | App Sumo is an amazing company. |
| 1:39.6 | I bought a lot of stuff from you guys. |
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