You could start a company this weekend, w/Noah Kagan

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Entrepreneur Noah Kagan wants everyone to feel empowered to start a business. That’s the core message of his new book, Million Dollar Weekend. He’s founded multiple companies worth at least a million dollars, including AppSumo. That’s his software marketplace worth more than $80 million. Noah shares lessons from his scale journey, and from the early flameouts at high-profile start-ups (like being employee number 30 at Facebook and an early staffer at Mint) that fueled a desire to prove himself.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now.
0:07.0	Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response has expanded into its own feed.
0:12.0	We're releasing shows twice a week,
0:14.3	focusing on the urgent issues
0:16.1	that business leaders are dealing with in real time.
0:19.9	While some rapid response episodes appear
0:22.4	on Masters of Scale,
0:23.6	many of our best are only available every week
0:26.5	in the rapid response feed.
0:28.5	To make sure you catch it all,
0:30.3	search for rapid response,
0:32.1	wherever you get your podcasts and subscribe.
0:35.0	See you on the other side.
0:37.0	My father, he was an entrepreneur, he sold copiers, which nowadays people don't know what those are.
0:49.0	And he was an Israeli immigrant.
0:55.0	Yeah, yeah, he's an immigrant, didn't speak English, and just hustled.
1:01.0	Noah Kagan is a serial entrepreneur. By my count he's founded eight businesses each worth a million dollars or more.
1:08.0	He credits his dad for his risk-taking DNA.
1:12.0	I used to follow him in his... for his
1:14.4	DNA.
1:15.4	and we'd go and deliver copiers.
1:20.0	What excited you about that experience?
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