Noah Kagan

25 statements across 5 episodes · 9 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 13, 2021 by Sam Parr · said 44 times in 16 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Everything said about Noah Kagan, oldest first

May 13, 2021 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Parr: AppSumo will hit $100M gross and $50M net revenue
“Noah Kagan runs this company called AppSumo. It's a weekly email where you get deals on software this year. They're going to do a hundred million in gross revenue of which like, 50, fifty million is their revenue.”
Sam Parr May 13, 2021 ▶ 1:02:16 How Virtual Horses are Making Millions & A Potential 9-Figure Company | My First Million #181
Dec 7, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Parr: AppSumo is bootstrapped, majority founder-owned with 150 employees
“He owns most of the company, has never taken any outside money, and they have, like, a 150 employees at this point.”
Sam Parr Dec 7, 2021 ▶ 2:33 How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, QVC for Mobile, and More
Dec 7, 2021 bullish
Assertion Supported
Parr: AppSumo will generate over $80M in revenue in 2021
“Their goal this year was a hundred million in revenue. They're gonna miss it by a little bit, but he said they're gonna get north of eighty million in revenue.”
Sam Parr Dec 7, 2021 ▶ 2:25 How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, QVC for Mobile, and More
Jan 18, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Noah Kagan: AppSumo pays roughly $60 to acquire a paying customer
“I think we're paying like 60 dollars for a paying customer now.”
Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022 ▶ 22:32 Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
Jan 18, 2022
Disclosure
Noah Kagan budgeted $500,000 for his YouTube channel production team in 2022
“We'll spend about half a million dollars on just the team this year.”
Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022 ▶ 5:36 Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
Jan 18, 2022 bullish
Disclosure
Noah Kagan actively invests in public software companies that AppSumo utilizes internally
“So when we were building Shopify apps five years ago, I was like, I don't know if our Shopify apps are going to work, but I'll put 10,000 dollars in Shopify stock when it just started. So if our apps suck, I think the Shopify thing will probably work. And that…”
Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022 ▶ 40:03 Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
Jan 18, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Noah Kagan's YouTube channel generated $121,800 in first-year AdSense revenue
“Last year on AdSense. We made a 121,000 dollars to 800 and year one. In our year, first hardcore year of having a team around.”
Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022 ▶ 6:25 Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
Jan 18, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Noah Kagan lost $25K acquiring a Chrome extension he failed to monetize
“I think I bought it for 25,000 for 40,000 installs active installs on Chrome. But with that one, we could not monetize it at all. We tried like paid features. We tried ads to it. We tried to grow it. And we were not as successful. So I pretty much lost almost …”
Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022 ▶ 18:29 Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
Jan 18, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Noah Kagan paid $100K for a WordPress plugin with 1M installs
“For the Google analytics one, they had a million sales. I paid a hundred K.”
Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022 ▶ 17:33 Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
Jan 18, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Noah Kagan claims DTC beverage brand MudWtr generates $60M in annual revenue
“I think he's, I mean, last we heard it was a sixty million dollar revenue, which revenue is always different than profit, as I'm sure you know.”
Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022 ▶ 32:59 Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
Jan 18, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Noah Kagan bought 5M WordPress plugin installs to launch Sumo.com
“So when we launched sumo.com, I actually bought probably about five million installs. I think give or take five million installs of WordPress plugins. So I bought like some of the most popular WordPress plugins around.”
Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022 ▶ 16:29 Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
Jan 18, 2022 neutral
What-if
Noah Kagan admits knowing AppSumo would take ten years would deter him
“Like for me, if you would have told me when I started AppSumo, like, hey, no, you'll be a millionaire, but it's going to take 10 years. I probably wouldn't have started.”
Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022 ▶ 29:03 Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
Jan 18, 2022
Disclosure
Noah Kagan emailed monthly life reviews to close friends for seven years
“So every month, and this, I've done this now for about seven years and it's basically an email I sent to Tynan, Nick Gray, and my buddy Jimmy and Leo, and you basically just review your past month”
Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022 ▶ 52:04 Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
Jan 18, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Noah Kagan left Mint early because his equity upside capped at $2M
“I thought mint was going to sell for that price. That's why I left early.”
Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022 ▶ 25:41 Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
Jan 18, 2022 bearish
Opinion
Noah Kagan: Brex and Ramp are overvalued $10B branded credit card companies
“I think some of the stupidest companies that are big that I don't get is like Brex or Ramp. They're like credit card branded companies that are like ten billion dollars.”
Noah Kagan Jan 18, 2022 ▶ 25:07 Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
Feb 2, 2024 negative
Insight
Sam Parr: Business plans, business cards, and LLCs are stupid
“Business plans are stupid. Business cards are stupid. LLCs are stupid.”
Sam Parr Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 4:07 How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
Feb 2, 2024 neutral
Insight
Noah Kagan: Business fundamentally reduces entirely to making asks
“Business is like, Hey, will you be my sponsor? For your guys show necessarily, or will you be my customer? Will you be my partner? Will you be my employee? It's an ask.”
Noah Kagan Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 5:48 How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
Feb 2, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Noah Kagan: AppSumo did $76.7M gross, $56M net, $7.5M profit
“So gross sales is 76.7 net revenue was 56. Pretty good. And then profit was 7.5.”
Noah Kagan Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 17:35 How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
Feb 2, 2024
Disclosure
Noah Kagan: Leaking email expansion to TechCrunch led to Facebook firing
“And I let Arrington at TechCrunch know like, Hey, Facebook's opening up to at Microsoft and at corporate emails in the morning. I think you should write about it and get and talk about it. Cause Facebook wasn't going to do any press. And he wrote about it that…”
Noah Kagan Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 31:07 How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
Feb 2, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Noah Kagan: Reached $1M liquid by age 30 through extreme frugality
“No, I, I've never been broke. I had a million dollars at 30 from day jobs. I think that's kind of, like, not recognized by most people. Meaning, one, I was super cheap. Right? So I lived on floors for a year. That's a good way to save money. Lived at my mom's …”
Noah Kagan Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 19:42 How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
Feb 2, 2024 bullish
Insight
Noah Kagan: Companies like Facebook and Airbnb started in a weekend
“Facebook started that way in a weekend. Airbnb did. A lot of other companies can too.”
Noah Kagan Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 7:21 How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
Feb 2, 2024
Insight
Noah Kagan: Wealthy founders succeed through immediate action, not waiting
“And I think people are waiting to be ready, and they're just never ready. And people like yourselves, me, who ultimately have gotten to somewhere of wealth, We're just doing shit.”
Noah Kagan Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 2:12 How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
Feb 2, 2024 positive
Insight
Noah Kagan: Billionaires build extreme wealth focusing on one business over decades
“All of them got rich as well in one way. Like I was just at FedEx this morning because I interviewed the guy from Kinko's. He just focused on copiers. That's it. But a lot of newer entrepreneurs I've seen are ones that haven't had as much success. They're like…”
Noah Kagan Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 34:14 How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
Aug 26, 2024
What-if
Parr: Noah Kagan lost $100M in unvested equity when Zuckerberg fired him
“Noah was the 32nd or 30th employee employee... And Zuck goes to his desk and he goes, you're fucking with my company. You're out. And he fires him on month nine. So Noah was three months away from his first invest. And Noah's told me, he goes, had I just made …”
Sam Parr Aug 26, 2024 ▶ 46:46 Jesse Pujji on Bootstrapping a +$1B Business + Selling To The Ultra Rich
Aug 26, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Parr: Noah Kagan's AppSumo generates $100M per year in revenue
“And now it's like, you know, a business that does a hundred million a year in revenue.”
Sam Parr Aug 26, 2024 ▶ 47:36 Jesse Pujji on Bootstrapping a +$1B Business + Selling To The Ultra Rich
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