Episode 405: TMBA405: A Conversation with Noah Kagan
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/noahkagan/ Dan and Ian are very fortunate to speak to one of their favorite entrepreneurs this week, and someone whose reputation certainly precedes him.
This week's guest is Noah Kagan.
Noah is the founder of AppSumo.com, and the host of Noah Kagan Presents. App Sumo is an extremely successful online business which offers daily deals for digitally distributed products and services. Noah's blog OkDork has also been a longtime favorite of the hosts of this show..
On this episode, you'll learn how Noah defines success. You'll also hear about his unique approach to hiring and team building, his investment strategy, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | I'll tell you, to be honest, when I was in Israel, I kind of dreaded coming back to the office. |
| 0:04.0 | The company's not doing that great. We've struggled a lot. Well, what do you mean you've struggled? This year, me and my partner have had some kind of like just disagreements. That's the first time in seven years. This is one of my best friends. The product wasn't developing as fast. The revenue wasn't growing as fast. And I abandoned it. I was like, you guys are good luck. |
| 0:19.6 | When the right answer is like, take |
| 0:21.5 | responsibility, lean into it and help out. |
| 0:26.9 | Hey, podcast, listener. Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, |
| 0:31.7 | right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the |
| 0:36.3 | globe seeking to grow better, more profitable |
| 0:38.9 | location independent businesses. If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download |
| 0:43.9 | our entire back catalog, check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:56.6 | Hey, yo, happy Thursday morning. |
| 0:58.3 | It's a TMBA podcast. |
| 1:06.9 | This is the show where we believe building a profitable business is one of the best ways to get more personal freedom for you and your family. |
| 1:07.5 | Wow. |
| 1:08.5 | Here we are. |
| 1:09.6 | How do you like that? |
| 1:10.1 | Here we are. |
| 1:12.1 | I like that. On today's show, |
| 1:17.6 | we're going to be speaking with Noah Kagan, who hardly needs an introduction, but I think, |
| 1:21.2 | otherwise, if we didn't do an introduction, what else would we be doing here? Well, he'd do it himself. I'll figure out if he's here right now. He would be happy to. Today you're going to learn |
| 1:26.6 | about how Noah defines success, his unique |
| 1:30.6 | approach to hiring and team building, and he's done plenty of it, his investment strategy, |
| 1:35.7 | and much more. And when I spoke with Noah, I had just caught up with him after he had been on a |
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