Noah Kagan
Chief Sumo at AppSumo.com | Helping entrepreneurs get started at noahkagan.com
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Sumo & CEO
2010 - Current
We promote cool stuff. Check out AppSumo.com. Or our original products: TidyCal.com, SendFox.com or KingSumo.com.
Author
2019
Author of Million Dollar Weekend (NYT best-selling book)
Founder
2001
A long time ago, I was a cubicle monkey who didn’t enjoy his career. But then I started AppSumo, where we help entrepreneurs kick more ass. In my newsletter, I share my failures, stories, and learnings over the years.
co-founder
2007 - 2010
Payments engine for social games that powered the likes of Zynga, Playdom, Gaia Online, Tagged and many more. Grew business to 18 million dollars in revenue and never played Farmville once.
Director of Marketing
2006 - 2007
Developed and executed entire marketing strategy to launch. If you've heard of Mint.com then I did an okay job:)
Intuit Turbo is an app to get financial reports and financial advice.
Product Manager
2005 - 2006
Coordinated Facebook mobile, advertising, search, status, stealth projects, etc...
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Coordinator
2005 - 2005
The premier conferences on online communities and social networks.
Owner
2004 - 2005
Company focused on connecting any size business with college students. Helps businesses with strategy, marketing and sales in attracting college students. Created the Ninja Card which was the fastest growing college discount card. Expanded to 5 campuses and sold over $50,000 worth of cards. Clients included: Dell Computers. http://www.collegeup.org : Craigslist for college students http://www.ninjacard.com: Student discount card http://www.hfgconsulting.com: College market consulting http://www.entrepreneur27.org: Social group for entrepreneurs
Geography Marketing Analyst
2004 - 2005
Supply chain optimization for Intel Pentium 4 laptop chips. Mostly slept underneath my desk and spent time in meetings :)
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.
Education
BS
2000 - 2004