Just Go Grind #181: Omar Zenhom, Co-Founder & CEO of WebinarNinja and Host of The $100 MBA Show, on Building a SaaS Company with 300% YOY Growth, Growing a Podcast to 130 Million Downloads, and Lessons Learned from Creating 1,600+ Podcast Episodes
Omar Zenhom is the co-founder and CEO of WebinarNinja. Founded in 2014, over a million people have attended a webinar on WebinarNinja, and it has been named as one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in 2018. Omar is also is the host of the iTunes Best of 2014 podcast, The $100 MBA Show. With over 130 million downloads and over 1,600 episodes, The $100 MBA Show is ranked as a top business podcast in over 30 countries.
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Connect with Omar Zenhom
- The $100 MBA
- The $100 MBA Show on Apple Podcasts
- WebinarNinja
- WebinarnNinja Course
- WebinarNinja Facebook
- WebinarNinja Twitter
Some of the Topics Covered by Omar Zenhom in this Episode
- How Omar started The $100 MBA Show
- Omar's 1st podcast, with 46 episodes of "People Who Know Their Shit"
- The importance of leveraging your strengths
- How Omar knew his first show was a failure and he decided to pivot
- Omar's experience at New Media Expo and how it influenced him starting a podcast
- The first few months of The $100 MBA Show and why Omar recorded the first 5 episodes multiple times
- Why Omar launched The $100 MBA Show with 30 episodes already recorded
- Growing to 10,000 downloads/episode after a few months of The $100 MBA Show launch
- Getting to 1,600+ episodes with 120,000 downloads/episode
- The importance of just getting started
- How Omar doubled down on the podcast and why he took voice lessons
- Why being consistent and focusing on the quality of the show is everything for growing a podcast
- How Omar and his team craft their curriculum for their show
- Why Omar decided to start WebinarNinja
- Building a SaaS company and how Omar builds his team
- The "CEO mode" and the "worker bee mode" as a founder
- Growing the podcast to 130 million total downloads
- WebinarNinja's 300% growth in the last year
- Why Omar hasn't gotten bored after doing more than 1,600 podcast episodes
- The dynamic of running a business with your life partner
- How Omar recharges outside of work and why snowboarding is such a good activity to get immersed in
- Omar's advice for other entrepreneurs
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