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What happens when you realise you need to change your pace, and want to hire someone else to run your company? Can you really hire someone to run the company as well as you can? What do you need to have put in place to be able to do that?

And then, what happens when that person wants to leave and you need to either find someone else or do it yourself?

Noah Kagan, cofounder of AppSumo, a daily deal website for software, has been there and done that. In this episode, we talk all about it.

⏱ What you’ll find and when:

00:00 Intro
02:34 The story of founding AppSumo
07:16 AppSumo’s hiring philosophy
08:47 Hitting a business plateau and taking a step back
11:27 Hiring a CEO to run the company
20:39 Trying to hire a CEO for the second time
28:04 What makes AppSumo excited for the future
36:07 The things they did to truly level up

🔗 Connect with Noah:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahkagan/
AppSumo: https://appsumo.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/noahkagan

How to hire a CEO to run your startup • Noah Kagan from AppSumo

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How to hire a CEO to run your startup • Noah Kagan from AppSumo