Noah Kagan: 48 Hours to Entrepreneurship — Your Million Dollar Weekend [GREATEST HITS WEEK]

If you’ve ever thought: “I’d love a business BUT …“I don’t have TIME.”“I don’t have MONEY.”“I don’t have IDEAS.”“I have TOO MANY ideas and I don’t know where to start.”“I’m not technical.”“I’m not creative or artistic.”“I’m not good at sales.”You’re not alone. Countless people don’t start businesses or side hustles for these reasons.And they’re losing thousands — perhaps millions — in opportunity cost.How much could you make if you started a side hustle that eventually scaled into a business? Possibly millions. Today’s guest, Noah Kagan, is living proof.Noah was employee #30 at Facebook. His stock options, if fully vested, would be worth over $1 billion today.(If you want to do the math — his stock options came to 0.1 percent of the company, which has a current market cap of $1 trillion.)But Noah was fired just a couple months before his stock options vested. So rather than getting a billion-dollar payout, he got nothing.He sank into a deep depression, eventually recovering with the help of a therapist who counseled him on how to reframe the experience.Then he rolled up his sleeves and got to work. He became a serial entrepreneur, building multiple businesses. His most successful venture now makes $80 million in gross revenue, and his personal take-home is $3.3 million per year (which comes from a $200,000 annual salary and $3.1 million profit distribution.) His net worth is $36 million.Not a billion, but still not too shabby.Noah recently wrote a book called “Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours.”He sits down with us (in person!) to share:— how to find business ideas— how to overcome objections and rejections— how to scaleBy the end of the episode, the common objections that you often hear — like “I don’t have time/money/ideas” — will be quashed.Please enjoy!We're sharing this as part of GREATEST HITS WEEK, a 5-day series in which we're sharing 5 episodes, across 5 days, that originally aired at the start of 2024 (January through March). You may have missed it then; enjoy it now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.