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Read previewNoah Kagan, an early Facebook employee, may have worked for Mark Zuckerberg for only nine months, but he says the brief stint taught him a lot about Zuckerberg's management style. Then I got fired," Kagan wrote in an X post on Tuesday before launching into what he said were the "10 non-obvious lessons" he picked up from Zuckerberg. Kagan joined Facebook as a product manager in 2005, the same year Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard University to run the company full time. Representatives for Kagan and Zuckerberg didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours. Zuckerberg told employees in January 2023: "I don't think you want a management structure that's just managers managing managers, managing managers, managing managers, managing the people who are doing the work."
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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailAppSumo CEO talks his journey to creating an $80 million per year tech companyNoah Kagan, AppSumo CEO, joins 'Last Call' for Make It Monday to share his journey from being fired from Facebook to creating his own the company that brings in $80 million per year.
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Kagan founded AppSumo over a weekend in 2010, spending $60 on a developer and a domain name. It took Kagan, now 41, just a few days in 2010 to found AppSumo, a company which brought in about $80 million in revenue last year. Get started nowYour natural instinct when looking to start a business may be to learn as much as you possibly can. "You have to practice the skill of asking," Kagan says. "Asking someone to be your customer, asking someone to be your partner, asking someone for feedback on your idea."
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Facebook fired Kagan in 2006 after he leaked company information to the press at Coachella. "I didn't work too hard at Intel and I didn't spend a lot of money," Kagan says. Following his firing from Facebook, Kagan ran conferences for aspiring entrepreneurs (a hustle he had started while at Intel), taught English in South Korea and picked up consulting work for Silicon Valley tech firms. In addition to working on AppSumo, Kagan manages rental properties and creates content for his YouTube and social media channels. In addition to his AppSumo business and his book, Kagan operates a YouTube channel and manages five rental properties.
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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailI was fired from Facebook in my 20s—now I make $3.3 million running my own tech companyNoah Kagan, 41, CEO and Co-founder of Appsumo.com, earns approximately $3.3 million a year. Before starting Appsumo.com, he held positions at tech companies such as Intel, Mint.com and Facebook. Currently, Noah divides his time between his homes in Austin, Texas, and Barcelona, Spain. 08:07 43 minutes ago
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