AppSumo

“And for me, getting started with AppSumo my freedom number is 3000 bucks.”

“This is in 2010, and we actually built software to run our own giveaway. Launched it in the morning, and by noon, a quarter million people signed up for it.”

“When people are like, Hey, I've had a job less than a year. That, that just, even to this day, almost a red flag to be hired at our company.”

“So we launched a Calendly competitor called TidyCal. I don't know if you've heard of this, but yeah, that's a, you know, three, four million dollar a year business.”

“If Google was cheaper or Facebook was more efficient or people could do marketing themselves, like there wouldn't be AppSumo. There wouldn't be Airbnb if you could just promote your home yourself.”

“And then I got, I asked the founders to give me ads for free. Jeff Berman: The founders of Reddit to give you ads for free. Yeah. Why would they? Noah Kagan: Well, I think because they were launching their ad platform and they wanted some data on it. And so, y…”

“Every time we've tried to hyperscale and go beyond, I guess, the organic growth curve of our company we've, we fucked up.”

“We go out and find tools that are more, more or less getting started, and then we negotiate a deal, 50 dollars for life, so none of our products that we promote on our marketplace have subscriptions.”

“And then AppSumo, our first year was somewhere 300,000 plus. Second year is three million.”

“And I just got a, you know, every day I get a pulse and like we're already at 25% growth this year because we're not stressing on how we 10 X our business so fast and try to prove to anybody else.”

“Now, you know, AppSumo today, you know, almost a hundred million dollars a year in revenue, which is insane.”

“Now, for me, I think hiring is a great practice, and the easiest way to practice it at home. Hire a cleaner. Just practice it. Do they come on time? Do they, do you have a checklist for them? How do you make sure they're doing well? How do you pay them where t…”

“We have a marketplace of, you know, million entrepreneurs that want to buy software”

“No, it cost me 48 dollars. I got, a guy named Muhammad who I still talk to this day, 15 years later he helped me put the PayPal button on the website. And it was 12 dollars for the domain, that's part of the 48 dollars. And then I used Gmail as my back-end.”

“And I was like, well, I guess in subconsciously, I'm sure that's how I felt many years running up soon. Like I'm going to do the same. Just like be reckless, be a liability, make some bad decisions, make bad hires, you know, go, you know, just self-sabotage.”