Noah Kagan
Passion as Forward Motion
November 20, 2007 | by Noah on the writeup.. Jay on the Video | Permalink
Noah Kagan, president of software development company Kickflip, will tell you what he does for a living, but don’t make that your lead if approaching him at a cocktail party. “I hate that question,” says the 25 year old Berkeley grad, who has worked for at least four separate companies that should have made him rich, if he had stayed around long enough. Although money is a final result, this self-proclaimed “results oriented guy” is more concerned with making decisions in the moment, not building his 401k. He quickly brushes over stories about Intel, Microsoft and Facebook to name a few, working his way toward current and future projects with far smaller companies.
Noah has a voracious appetite for action, something that is underappreciated in the world of large corporations. No bother. Noah finds places that fit his tastes, not the other way around. Money, to the Cupertino, CA native, has never been a driving force. Rather, Noah looks at jobs like relationships, investing emotionally, working hard, yet keeping in mind that it may just not be the perfect fit. It is an outlook that has made Noah a desired mind in just about any company, and has led him to start his own.
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Steve Says:
November 22nd, 2007
Good spirit. I couldn’t play the video, but the story is a good one. However, I do hope Noah stays put for while. Jobs are like relationships, however there is no instant perfection. Like relationships, jobs - the right fit - may take a form of committment.
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