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Noah Kagan Presents

The 60-Minute Conversation That Changed My Life

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Coon changed my life during our 60-minute lunch. As the founder of 1-800-CONTACTS and Wikibuy.com, Jonathan knows more about building successful businesses than almost anyone. Hear me share his exact secret to success, why he always tips $100, removing friction from all aspects of life, and tons more.

Show notes at http://okdork.com/podcast/12

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0:00.0

Welcome to Noah Kagan presents.

0:04.4

What up everyone, it's your boy,

0:09.2

what up everyone. It's your boy symmetry, aka Rabbi Can't Lose aka Noah Kagan today on the show I hung out with the founder of 1-800 contacts and wikibuy.com his name is Jonathan Kuhn and this is one of the best lunches I've had in years.

0:26.2

Who is this guy? He started 1-800 contacts that got sold for almost a billion.

0:30.8

Secondly, he helped fund the movie with his brother and wife, Napoleon Dynamite.

0:35.0

You remember that one? Pedro!

0:37.0

He also fought the government, no big deal, for five years.

0:40.0

He was there for a bunch of time and he basically got Americans

0:43.1

the rights to get their lens prescriptions we just all take that for

0:45.7

granted and it was just such an insane lunch I rushed back home because I wanted to

0:49.5

record and share the things I was able to learn myself from this lunch.

0:53.5

And the lunch itself actually started off pretty weird.

0:56.4

So I got there a little bit early.

0:57.7

I was actually wearing full cowboy attire.

0:59.7

Yes, ma'am, I was.

1:00.6

I reckon that's true.

1:02.4

So I got my table and the lady was helping me and the man was very, very, very conned.

1:06.0

And he walks in and I'm like, oh, come over to the table.

1:09.0

Come, I got a table.

1:10.0

I'm, you know, I was here ahead of time.

1:12.0

Anyways, I have my accent and the lady's there and he walks in Jonathan and he's like okay I'm like hey come over to this table I got one for us and he's like let's go to this table I was like okay and they all knew knew his name and they said you want the regular and they're bringing the food out. Basically they already knew what he was going to order. And I was like, dude, what is going on? This is weird. Why didn't you want to sit over there? He's like, well, because I like removing friction in all parts of my life.

1:33.7

I'm like, what are you talking about friction? He's like, yeah, so I know it takes nine minutes to get here.

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