Founder Mode The Creator CEO with Ahad Khan
Aug 14, 2025
Ahad Khan, CEO of Kajabi, empowers creators to build sustainable businesses through monetization. He emphasizes shifting focus from virality to long-term ownership, discussing actionable strategies for pricing and achieving content market fit. Ahad also shares insights on integrating AI while preserving personal connections, the critical role of post-founder leadership, and how creators can validate their ideas through audience engagement. His vision for the creator economy highlights the importance of entrepreneurial creators and customer obsession.
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Creators Need A CEO Mindset
- The creator economy now prizes creators who think like CEOs and build sustainable businesses.
- Entrepreneurial creators focus on ownership and durability, not just follower counts.
Customer Obsession Guides Product Expansion
- Customer obsession is a durable product strategy that outlives founders and fuels expansion.
- Building around customer jobs led Kajabi from courses to podcasts, communities, coaching, and more.
Find Content‑Market Fit First
- Validate your idea with content before building the product by testing for content-market fit.
- Own your audience off-platform, ask them what they want, and then build monetizable products around that demand.