My Ex-CEO Grew AppSumo From $5M to $70M

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Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Check out my book Million Dollar Weekend, which helps you start businesses in just 48 hours. Check it out at milliondollarweekend.com.

In this episode, I chat with Ayman Al-Abdullah, My friend and former CEO of AppSumo, who played a pivotal role in scaling the company from $5M to $70M, from 2016 to 2021.

Since stepping down as CEO for AppSumo, he’s now become a growth strategy coach for many other CEOs. Ayman is of the best out there IMO and I wanted him to come on the show and share his insights into what it takes to grow a business from seven to nine figures, obviously drawing from his rich experience building a robust and sustainably growing company AppSumo.

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

Why figuring out your ideal customer, even as a coach, is essential
Why people get stuck in a product creation loop rather than company creation.
The dangers of shiny object syndrome and why Ayman is the double down king.

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

You can find Aymon @aymanalabdul on Instagram or X

And if you fall into the 7+ figure camp and need help scaling to 9 figures, Ayman is your guy, you can find him at aymanalabdullah.com

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0:00.0	At the highest level millimeters make millions.
0:02.8	Practice doesn't make perfect.
0:04.8	Perfect practice makes perfect.
0:06.8	Even though your mouth is two inches below your nose,
0:09.2	you have to get someone else to tell you your breath stinks. What is up you sexy bastards?
0:17.0	It is your boy, the new dad, aka Rabbi Can't Lose,
0:20.3	aka Noah Kagan.
0:22.4	In this episode, I talk with another new dad one of my very best friends
0:25.3	Aaman Al Abdullah. He's also the former CEO of my company, Apsoomo.com. Now Aeman played a
0:32.2	critical role helping scale Apsumo from $3 million to $80 million in gross revenue in five years.
0:39.0	Since stepping down as the CEO for Apsumo, Aeman has become a CEO coach.
0:44.2	And so, Aeman is literally one of the best out there.
0:46.5	And I wanted to come and share his insights
0:48.6	of what he's seeing from a lot of other CEOs,
0:51.1	plus from what he's seen at Appzomoom and he's still someone we pay to this day
0:54.1	to help coach me in our business. He's definitely someone legit. I'm looking forward to sharing
0:58.6	what he's got in store for y'all. Now in this conversation you learn three gigantic things. Number one, what is the one thing you need to figure out that is essential for a success?
1:08.0	Number two, why do people get stuck in loops of product creation rather than company creation and how to get out of it.
1:15.1	And number three, the dangers of shiny object and how Aeman is the double down king.
1:20.1	He really is the double down king.
1:21.4	I love starting new things and Aeman was exceptional at doing more of what works and we're gonna share that and a bunch
1:26.2	more earnuggets along the way let's go give a man so love you're really if you're
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