Today on BILLIONS, I’m sitting down with Noah Kagan — the guy who got fired from Facebook before it was worth a trillion… and turned that loss into the biggest comeback story in online business.
He went from losing a fortune on paper to building AppSumo, a $100 million-a-year bootstrapped empire - all without raising a single dollar of VC money.
Noah, thanks a lot for being here!
TIMELINE
00:00:00 - 00:02:10 : The trillion-dollar miss at Facebook
00:02:10 - 00:06:43 : Leadership lessons from Mark Zuckerberg's billion-dollar rejection
00:06:43 - 00:12:13 : The lifetime deal dilemma destroying software value
00:12:13 - 00:19:40 : Why most entrepreneurs never take action
00:19:40 - 00:26:49 : Building discipline through small daily choices
00:26:49 - 00:33:10 : The scary reality of AppSumo's uncertain future
00:33:10 - 00:42:09 : Community quality crisis in the AI era
00:42:09 - 00:48:58 : Testing new models before it's too late
00:48:58 - 00:57:07 : Hiring secrets for bootstrap businesses
00:57:07 - 01:04:29 : Finding contentment beyond the billion-dollar dream
REFERENCES
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Peter Thiel
- Marc Andreessen
- Sean Parker
- Dustin Moskovitz
- Soleio
- Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs
- Moody
- Christine Rogers
- Jesse Mecham –
- Ayman Al-Abdullah
- Reid Hoffman
- Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan
- AppSumo
- TidyCal
- Airbnb
- Asana
- Lemlist
- Reclaim
- Bolt
- Hostinger
- Emergent
- Pika
- YNAB
- Vercel
- Tabby
- YC
