Howdy friends, here are your three fun nuggets for the week…

🛏️ Meet the 71-Year-Old Furniture Tycoon Worth $200 Million

I wanted to find out about Texas furniture tycoon Mattress Mack’s $200 million/year business, including why he doesn’t mind losing multi-million dollar sports bets and why his personal bathroom is the secret behind his success (yes, really)...

He told me about:

• The unfair advantage that helped his business succeed
• How he rebounded from losing $10 million dollars of merchandise in a warehouse fire
• And why losing $10 million dollar sports bets actually makes him money

Get inspired by Mattress Mack’s story.

🆙 Amp It Up

There’s a lot of good books on starting a business… But not a ton on growing or scaling.

Amp it Up by Frank Slootman is a great one. 

Frank doesn’t start companies—he grows them. He took over the Snowflake data management company when it was worth $4 billion and now, after leading it into the largest software IPO ever—it’s valued around $85 billion.

Two key questions the book asked that inspired me to think about AppSumo’s trajectory differently:

1. If you can ONLY do one thing to help your business the rest of the year, what would it be and why?
2. How could we do this project in ½ the time?

Love the idea of using these to increase the focus and pace of our company. 

Hope this book helps you on your business journey.

☕ The Iced Coffee Hour Podcast

Recently I sat down with Graham Stephan and Jack Selby on The Iced Coffee Hour Podcast. We got deep on a few topics, like:

• How I actually went from a $50k/year job to a $25 million net worth
• What getting fired from Facebook was like
• Why getting rich doesn’t solve your dating life

A lot of you reached out saying you loved the episode, so if you haven’t tuned in yet, it’s worth a listen.

Hear me spill the tea on my own life.

Be Epic, 

Noah Kagan