Kagan reveals AppSumo reached $80M in annual revenue as a bootstrapped business
Noah Kagan · How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK | Noah Kagan · Jan 25, 2024 · at 42:22
Noah Kagan, CEO of AppSumo, details the historical revenue compounding and plateau stages of his bootstrapped software deals marketplace.
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“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 picking up again. The market got better. We stuck with it. We doubled down, aiming the old CEO, doubled down on things that worked. And then, you know, last year, eighty million dollars.”
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