How Mattress Mack built a $200 million furniture business

Noah Kagan August 1, 2022

• A $10M warehouse fire destroyed overnight — operations resumed next day.
• Sports bets structured so the business wins regardless of the outcome.
• Calls 90 customers personally every day to outlast high-tech competitors.

Asking New York Millionaires How To Make $1,000,000

Noah Kagan July 12, 2022

How top YouTubers actually make their first million dollars

Noah Kagan June 23, 2022

• YouTube ad revenue alone rarely reaches seven figures; courses and sponsorships dominate.
• Finance and business niches have the highest CPMs, fastest path to revenue milestones.
• Don't quit your job until the channel is already consistently generating income.

What Supercar Owners Do for a Living and Their Best Money Advice

Noah Kagan June 1, 2022

• Passion beats strategy — owners across every field say love drives long hours.
• S&P 500 over 30 years beats short-term crypto every time.
• Sales and uncapped commissions are the fastest employee path to wealth.

How a fisherman built a million-dollar business from his passion

Noah Kagan May 21, 2022

• Own the boat, don't just drive it — shift from craftsman to owner
• YouTube took a year before earning a dollar; persistence is non-negotiable
• Passion becomes a job — burning out is real, even doing what you love

Nine passive income streams generating $357,000 per month

Noah Kagan April 20, 2022

• Software and business ownership account for 87% of total monthly income.
• Every stream required years of prior work, capital, or audience to build.
• Crypto staking and index funds offer the most truly hands-off returns.

What retired millionaires say about wealth, regret, and what mattered

Noah Kagan April 6, 2022

• Relationships, not money, are what millionaires say mattered most
• The top regret: not spending enough time with kids while building wealth
• Learn to sell early — no one cares about credentials, only what you deliver

How to validate and launch a million-dollar business in one day

Noah Kagan March 23, 2022

• Sell before you build — get paid before writing a line of code
• Two questions that generate every viable business idea
• Three quick market research checks that rule out dead ends

A real day in the life of an $80M revenue CEO

Noah Kagan February 17, 2022

• The performative CEO routine is a lie — here's the real one
• Sleeping until 8am and making your bed beats 5am hustle theatre
• Facing fear after work: pilot licence, stranger bike rides, hard stops

What millionaires actually did to build wealth

Noah Kagan January 27, 2022

• Most wealthy people built wealth through one focused pursuit over many years.
• Discipline and flexibility matter more than having the perfect plan upfront.
• Older successful people are accessible — you just have to ask them.

Nine crypto side hustles beyond simply buying coins

Noah Kagan January 20, 2022

• Serving crypto users beats owning crypto for building real income.
• All nine hustles start manually — automate only after proving demand.
• From whale tracking to NFT insurance, infrastructure gaps are the opportunity.

How Mud/Wtr built a $60 million business with one product

Noah Kagan December 29, 2021

• Launched a coffee alternative in a weekend with $5,000 and Amazon spices
• Supply chain near-killed the business before a friend's $25K check saved it
• Picking coffee as the enemy built a brand worth more than the product

How one founder built an $800k/month mask business during COVID

Noah Kagan December 17, 2021

• $300k on day one; $8M in the first six months.
• SMS list converts 3–4x better than email, live demo proves it.
• Chinese masks cost 1.5 cents — government subsidies, not efficiency.

Three founders in their 20s who built billion-dollar companies

Noah Kagan December 10, 2021

• All three founders solved a problem they personally experienced first
• Glossier grew from a blog audience before a single product existed
• Printful was born by solving an internal printing problem with one printer

Four side hustlers pitch for $10,000 in a live shark tank

Noah Kagan November 24, 2021

• Real founders pitch live for $10,000 to go full-time
• Proven revenue beats early-stage ideas every time
• The winner needed capital for one specific logistics step