Ep. 33 - Noah Kagan: What It's Like to Lose $100 Million at Facebook
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2014
⏱️ 91 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.5 | This is the James Altature Show on the Standsbury Radio Network. |
| 0:10.9 | So this is James Altature with the James Altature Show and I'm here with Noah Kagan. |
| 0:19.2 | Some of you might not know who he is but Noah, I know your most important thing that I |
| 0:25.0 | want to talk about in this podcast is App Sumo and by the end of this podcast anyone |
| 0:31.1 | listening to this is going to learn how to make seven figures in their spare time. |
| 0:35.9 | But I do want to mention that you were Facebook employee number 30 and you got fired and |
| 0:42.4 | I know everybody talks to you about this and I don't want to be yet another guy asking |
| 0:46.5 | you about this but I have to ask you about it. |
| 0:49.9 | So welcome to the show Noah. |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah, thanks for having me. |
| 0:56.0 | Now Facebook employee number 30, what was even half, was it like a tiny little website |
| 1:01.3 | when you were Facebook employee number 30 like what was it then? |
| 1:04.2 | Well it's all relative, right? |
| 1:06.1 | So even back then it was still pretty big. |
| 1:08.5 | We had about seven million signups. |
| 1:10.5 | I think we were doing somewhere between 15 and 50,000 signups today. |
| 1:14.1 | So it's kind of like obviously now that 1.5 billion active people ever take and then |
| 1:19.6 | at that time it was small but it was still growing at like an enormous pay. |
| 1:24.0 | So it felt good. |
| 1:25.0 | It felt like something exciting was happening. |
| 1:27.3 | Oh, I mean I knew something was exciting was happening. |
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