GEN C: Building a Billion-Dollar Business for Creators With Kajabi’s Sean Kim
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, learn the secrets to building a lucrative creator business from the ground up, straight from Sean Kim, President and CPO of the creator-first platform, Kajabi.
Sean Kim, President and Chief Product Officer at Kajabi, discusses the challenges creators face in earning a sustainable income from their work. He explains how Kajabi's all-in-one platform has enabled over 63,000 creators and earned over $7 billion gross by providing them with the tools and resources to build and monetize their online businesses. Sean also shares his predictions for the future growth of the creator economy and Kajabi's roadmap for expanding opportunities for creators.
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"Gen C" features hosts Sam Ewen and Avery Akkineni. Executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced by Uyen Truong. Our theme music is "1882” by omgkirby x Channel Tres with editing by Doc Blust. Artwork by Nicole Marie Rincon.
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| 0:43.9 | Wondery, UK. That's audible.com slash Wondery UK. I mean, if you look at the creator |
| 0:50.5 | economy today, there's some stats that say only 4% of the entire |
| 0:54.4 | credit economy of creators are making over 100K. On YouTube, I suspect that number is lower, |
| 0:59.6 | like 0.01%. And so it's not an easy problem to solve. We've tried a lot of things that, even at |
| 1:05.2 | TikTok, we tried trying to help them solve this problem. And when I did a lot of research, I found |
| 1:09.6 | that Kajabi was one of those |
| 1:11.3 | companies that was doing it incredibly well. And to date, we have helped 62,000, roughly over |
| 1:16.9 | 60,000, I think about 63,000 customers earn over $7 billion. This episode is sponsored by Safe, |
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| 1:42.9 | Sam, how are you? Happy Wednesday. How is your week going? |
| 2:02.0 | My week is busy, Avery. You know, We are four weeks away from consensus. So that always is crunch time for us. But I'm always so happy to have this conversation with you. We have an amazing guest coming on. Sean Kim. Sean is the president. He's the chief product officer at Kajabi, which is a real creator first platform that quietly only made $7 billion in the last year. So for anyone who's interested in the creator |
| 2:08.2 | economy, I think this will be a great conversation. Avery, I sent you a text last night way too late. |
| 2:12.7 | You probably were sleeping, but it was- I wasn't. I responded within a minute. |
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