Noah Kagan gives a behind-the-scenes vlog of a day leading AppSumo, a roughly $96M/year software deals marketplace run by about 120 people.…
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Noah interviews Bill Perkins, an energy trader who has earned roughly $100M in peak years and author of 'Die with Zero,' about maximizing…
Noah breaks down his $3.3M personal income the prior year, walking through the journey, full revenue lines, expenses, taxes, budgeting, and…
Noah interviews Patrick Bet-David, founder of PHP Agency, who recounts going from $49k in debt and a chaotic childhood in Iran to a…
Noah distills six lessons from interviewing 25 billionaires, covering why there are essentially no employee billionaires, how they create…
Noah helps a subscriber named Jake launch a golf-trip planning business in 48 hours, targeting $1M in revenue, with Jake's contact email…
Noah documents his own 48-hour challenge to start a business, walking through getting the first dollar, a coffee challenge, three business…
Noah interviews Bob Metcalfe, inventor of ethernet and founder of 3Com, who built and eventually sold the networking company that took…
Noah interviews Larry Janesky, founder of Contractor Nation and Basement Systems Inc., a basement waterproofing and contracting empire…
Noah interviews shipowner Michael Hudner, who owns over 140 ships and grew a roughly $1B maritime portfolio after starting in real estate…
Noah spends $5,000 on a first-class Austin-to-Barcelona ticket and interviews fellow passengers about how they built wealth, ranging from a…
Noah interviews Mark Jenney, who went from homelessness to launching 30+ companies, selling RV Share for $100M, and now running an Airbnb…
Noah flies to a Newport Beach ZIP code and knocks on doors interviewing millionaires, ranging from a strawberry farmer turned vineyard…
Noah tours one of Mark Jenney's Airbnb properties generating over $1M/year and explains how Mark manages 20+ short-term rentals around the…
Noah interviews Manny Khoshbin, who went from living out of a station wagon after immigrating from Iran to a roughly $200M commercial real…
Noah tours the private car collections of Manny Khoshbin and Ferrari collector David Lee (combined value ~$100M) to learn how they invest…
Noah interviews John Paul DeJoria, founder of Paul Mitchell hair-care and Patron tequila, who went from homelessness and living on…
Noah sits with four self-made multi-millionaires (Manny, Rafa, John Paul, Ramon) to ask whether the American Dream still exists and what…
Rafa Martinez recounts emigrating from El Salvador at 12 during the civil war, then building hundreds of millions trading natural…
Noah visits Brian Smith, founder of UGG boots, who turned a $500 stake into a $2B/year brand before nearly losing the company. They cover…
Noah interviews three solopreneurs each making over $1M/year with zero employees to find out what their businesses are, how they went from…
In Part 2, Noah rides on a billionaire's private jet from Austin to Boston for a 45-minute interview about money, lifestyle, and…
Noah interviews Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko's, which he grew from a $5,000 investment and eventually sold to FedEx for $2.6B in 2004.…






















