Disclosure certainty 4/5 debate potential 1/5

Kagan: AppSumo uses Howdy.com to hire vetted South American developers

Noah Kagan · How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK | Noah Kagan · Jan 25, 2024 · at 12:22

Noah Kagan, CEO of AppSumo, explains his remote staffing workflow during a conversation with Greg Isenberg.

0:00 / 0:17exact quote · 17.6s
▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“We use howdy.com. Have you seen them? So they give you, they hire South American developers and employees, but they do all the vetting and they just make it stupid easy for you to have full-time dedicated staff in an area. So we're on our absolute originals products. We're testing them out.”

quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →

More from Noah Kagan

Insight
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…”
Noah Kagan Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 19:21 How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK | Noah Kagan
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kagan predicts Google Analytics will be disrupted and lose significant market share
“So one of the easy ones I think is going to easily get its ass kicked is Google Analytics.”
Noah Kagan Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 3:18 How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK | Noah Kagan
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Kagan bets his new DocuSign alternative will make $1M within a year
“And then I believe, I would bet, I'll bet a million dollars, it'll make a million dollars in a year.”
Noah Kagan Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 3:59 How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK | Noah Kagan
Insight
Kagan: The best compensation method is asking hires what they want to make
“I think the best way to pay people is ask them how much they want to make.”
Noah Kagan Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 21:06 How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK | Noah Kagan
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook to meet women, not for billions, says Kagan
“Like Mark didn't start Facebook. I'm going to be a billionaire. It's like, ah, let me see if I can meet some chicks online. If we're honest. Right. And I worked for him. So I know that stuff.”
Noah Kagan Jul 7, 2022 ▶ 23:59 Bootstrapping Through A Bear Market with Noah Kagan
Disclosure
AppSumo's TidyCal generates $3,000 per day in profit on lifetime pricing
“So we launched tidycal.com maybe two years ago, and that's doing 3000 dollars in profit a day at 29 dollars for life.”
Noah Kagan Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 5:49 How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK | Noah Kagan
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 300 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.