Noah Kagan
22 statements across 5 episodes · 10 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jul 7, 2022 by Noah Kagan · said 35 times in 7 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2025 8 mentions in 1 episode
2024 15 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
2022 6 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Noah Kagan, oldest first
Jul 7, 2022 positive
Jul 7, 2022 bullish
Jul 7, 2022
Jan 25, 2024
Jan 25, 2024 positive
Kagan reveals AppSumo reached $80M in annual revenue as a bootstrapped business
“Once they start working, you know, for AppSumo, it was like, we did some of you, it worked right away. It was like first year, 300,002nd year, three million, but then it was flat, you know, for a few years. Like 4,000,004 1,000,005 1,000,004. Then it started p…”
Jan 25, 2024 positive
Jan 25, 2024
Kagan's early Facebook hockey app hit 1M users in a week
“So I copied the most popular app in, in one category that had the least competition, which was a soccer app. And I made a hockey app and I chased it and it went viral a million users in a week. And then I launched a bunch and then Naval wanted to fund me and o…”
Jan 25, 2024 negative
Jan 25, 2024 positive
Kagan: Pair elite fractional advisors with hungry junior internal employees
“We go and look at who did the thing at this company that's ahead of us. And then we pay that person a lot of money per hour. And then we hire a more junior person who cares probably a little bit more about AppSumo. And then they, it's kind of a nice, nice merg…”
Jan 25, 2024
Only six of Kagan's 1,300 book launch team members made a referral
“Like, we tried for the book, I did a referral program. Like, hey, if you, I had a launch team for the book. And I was like, all right, bring one person. So there's a 1300 person launch team. And I said, if you could bring one person, I'm going to do a dedicate…”
Jan 25, 2024
Andrew Chen modeled the economics behind AppSumo's shift to individual deals
“AppSumo used to be bundled software deals. And then we went to individual daily deals and it's not just cause that's what Groupon did. It's cause we literally like had to go understand that we looked at the economics of bundles. Andrew Chen put it together. He…”
Jan 25, 2024 positive
Jan 25, 2024 neutral
Jan 25, 2024 bullish
Jan 25, 2024 bullish
Jan 25, 2024
Kagan: Publishers avoid green business book covers due to industry superstition
“What was really interesting, if you go look on Amazon or a bookstore, there's no green business books. Which is kind of funny given that a lot of business is about money. They think it's taboo or bad luck, but we tested it and I also like the color myself.”
Jan 25, 2024 positive
Kagan: MaryMakery generated $50,000 in its first year selling greeting cards
“I just talked to someone who read million dollar weekend. Her name's Mackenzie. I got to give her a shout out. Mary makery.com. You know, if everyone's going one direction, so she's a greeting card business, 50,000 dollars her first year.”
Jan 25, 2024
Kagan: Founders only need to innovate ten percent of a new project
“Andrew Chen said so many years ago, he's like, you don't have to innovate a lot. You just have to do one thing. Cause I think we have to, we imagine like, well, I've got to innovate the book and then the marketing. It's like most of that stuff has been solved.…”
Jan 25, 2024 positive
Mar 8, 2024
May 1, 2024 neutral