MBA625 Must Read: How I Lost 170 Million Dollars: My Time as #30 at Facebook by Noah Kagan
The $100 MBA Show
Omar Zenhom
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2016
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Heyo! Welcome to the $100 R&B show, the business podcast that breaks down business to its simplest |
| 0:16.1 | form with our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar, and home. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training, and community online |
| 0:29.8 | over at 100 MBABA.net. |
| 0:32.9 | And today's lesson is a must read lesson. |
| 0:35.9 | In our must read lessons, I share with you a book that I've read |
| 0:38.7 | that has influenced me as an entrepreneur, |
| 0:40.7 | has impacted me in some way. I like to share with you my |
| 0:43.8 | takeaways from the book and why you should read it as well. Today's must read |
| 0:48.1 | is how I lost a hundred and seventy million dollars by Noah Kagan. The subtitle to this book is My Time as Number 30 at |
| 0:56.8 | Facebook. Some of you are very familiar with Noah Kagan's work. He is the founder |
| 1:01.0 | of AppSumo and Sumomie, which has featured as a sponsor here on the show, |
| 1:06.0 | and Noah has delivered a great guest teacher lesson here in the past. |
| 1:09.8 | Noah has become a friend of mine in the last few years. |
| 1:12.4 | I've learned a lot from him and I recently |
| 1:14.6 | picked up his book, How I Lost 170 Million dollars, and gave it a read. I gotta be honest, |
| 1:19.5 | when I picked up the book, I wasn't expecting to learn a whole lot. Now that Noah's not a good writer or a great |
| 1:24.2 | entrepreneur. Just that I know Noah so well. I've heard a lot of interviews with him. I've gotten |
| 1:28.8 | to know him over the years. And that's why I was so pleasantly surprised when I read the book how much I learned. And that's why I was so pleasantly surprised when I read the book how much I learned. |
| 1:34.4 | And that's why I wanted to cover as a must-read episode on the $100 MBA show. |
| 1:38.0 | This is a fantastic book to give you a glimpse of the early days of Facebook how it was to work there, |
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