In today's episode I talk to David Kelly who's the General Manage of AppSumo Originals -which is kind of AppSumo's version of a Google X division. He basically gets paid to start companies!

In today's episode you'll hear: How David's first job was managing a $50k ad budget for Fox News (3:42), How he got a job working as a copywriter for Ramit Sethi (6:27), How to land a job with someone you look up to when you have no experience (9:45), How David leveraged LinkedIn to land a job as the first marketing employee at Student Loan Hero (17:33), The story of Student Loan Hero getting acquired for $60M (22:56),  How David met Noah Kagan and how doing free work for him on the side turned into a full time opportunity (27:20), We talk more about David's current position where he gets paid to start companies (32:21), The biggest lessons David has learned from Noah (41:56).

Check out David's Companies Online:
SendFox: sendfox.com
KingSumo: http://kingsumo.com/
TidyCal: https://tidycal.com/

David's Blog: https://dmkthinks.org