#84 with Noah Kagan - How the Founder of AppSumo Walked Away From $100m

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) catch up with Noah Kagan (@noahkagan), founder of AppSumo and OkDork.com. Before that, he was employee #30 at Facebook, #4 at Mint, and worked at Intel. In today’s episode we hear about Noah’s background (1:05), Noah talks about the different between needing to do things and choosing to do things (5:58), how Noah thinks about finding customers (12:30), Sam asks for Noah’s framework for knowing how and when to build a new product (16:10, Noah talks about how our greatest strengths are also our greatest weaknesses (18:12), Shaan joins the podcast (27:00), Shaan asks Noah how he would build a company now if he was 21 with no name recognition (33:50), Noah leaves the podcast and Sam and Shaan talk through Sam’s upcoming road trip and future ideas (50:30). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	No, what's going on?
0:09.0	Sam Parr, in meetings all day and then I'm heading out to California in four hours.
0:15.6	So I was just, I haven't been on this podcast in a minute because I was in Austin.
0:21.1	I drove from California to Austin.
0:23.4	I hung out with Noah, Neville, and a bunch of people.
0:26.2	Now Noah is coming to Malibu or...
0:30.0	I'm coming to SF for a month and then I'm going to go to Malibu for a month.
0:34.0	Where are you staying in San Francisco?
0:36.1	Andrew Chenz house.
0:37.5	Oh, that's right.
0:38.8	You told me.
0:39.8	I've decided that I'm going to get rid of my apartment in San Francisco and I'm going
0:43.6	to live in different cities for one or two months each.
0:47.7	We're copying each other, Sam.
0:49.2	You went bald, so I went bald.
0:51.4	I'm moving places, so you're moving places.
0:53.5	I need you to get glasses, a dog.
0:56.2	Well, yeah, you need a few things.
1:00.1	I need a few things, you're funny.
1:02.8	We know each other well, but can you tell the listeners who you are?
1:06.1	What is up, you sexy listeners?
1:07.8	Noah Kagan.
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