A book, a baby, and a billionaire

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

We’re giving away $100,000 for AppSumo’s Black Friday Giveaway.

This week, as my baby sleeps and makes cute noises beside me, I’m sharing parenting lessons I’ve applied to running my business.

I’m also sharing a brilliant new business model I recently discovered that can be adapted to countless industries. Also my takeaways from an awesome book you have to read!

Whether you’re absorbed in family life, plotting your genius business idea, or looking to see a return on your investments, there’s something in this episode for you.

In this conversation, you’ll enjoy 3 BIG things:

Why parenting forces you to clarify your priorities.
The genius behind scalable business models like Baselang—and how you can adapt them.
Key lessons from Kochland on reinvesting, tracking ROI, and leveraging your strengths.

All these plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.

Check out Baselang and go learn some Spanish. Your first week is just $1, so there's no better time to begin.

You have to read this book Kochland by Christopher Leonard. It’s the story of how three brothers—David, Charles, and Bill Koch—transformed a small Kansas-based oil company into Koch Industries (a $125+ billion empire and 2nd largest privately-owned company in the world).

Transcript

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0:00.0	What is up, you sexy, sexy bastards. It's your boy, Papa, aka. I Can't Lose, aka Noah Kagan.
0:10.6	So my daughter's sleeping, and I don't know how long I have to do this episode, but as long as she's
0:15.0	asleep, I'll keep talking. And then once she wakes up, I'm going to put that crying on.
0:19.3	You'll hear it in this show. And the episode
0:21.9	ends. How are you? I miss you. Don't know if you've noticed. Maybe you didn't. I'm doing about one
0:28.1	episode slash content piece a month. And that's all I got. Shout out to all the moms out there.
0:37.1	Y'all are my number ones. Shout out to anyone who's
0:39.7	been a child. That's all of you. But it's definitely, yeah, it's been consuming in the past. It's been an
0:44.3	adjustment. So today I'm going to talk about three gigantic things. I don't know if they're
0:47.7	gigantic, but I think they'll be interesting for you. Number one, one of my favorite books I've
0:51.2	read this past few months. Number two, a business model that I think
0:56.6	is really interesting. And I think there's other areas and categories that can copy this business
1:00.9	model and I really like it. I'm a paying customer of it. And number three, parenting stuff. What's that
1:04.9	all about? Oh no, she's waking up already. Dude, I'm not afraid of anyone except my wife and daughter.
1:12.6	It's just kidding. I'm afraid of a lot of things. I might have to go throw a passie in her mouth. Let's not be to the
1:16.8	parenting thing. I'm going to talk about a few different pieces related to that. Just a call out,
1:20.6	though, I do not exploit my daughter for views, but I totally will if you guys would let me do
1:26.7	that. Just kidding. I don't know. I've just
1:28.6	personally decided not to post photos of her because I don't know about AI and these big companies
1:32.4	having her image from an early age. And it's just something where I know people like that stuff,
1:36.9	but I don't know why I want to share with a bunch of random strangers, even though I know y'all
1:40.5	are not strangers. I'm talking about all the other weirdos out there. So I haven't really posted anything of her face. I haven't really just posted in general.
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