Amazon Leader Supports Unions
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A story about Scott Heiferman, founder of Meetup.com, who secretly worked at an Amazon fulfillment center after selling his company.
"After selling Meetup.com to WeWork, Scott ended up getting a job at an Amazon fulfillment center. He didn't make a big ordeal out of this - he just puts it on his LinkedIn, someone finds it and shares it. He does a podcast where he talks about why he's at Amazon, saying he felt out of touch with average people and wanted to feel that again.
The interviewer asked him about the warehouse workers wanting to unionize. Scott said 'Look, I don't want to talk too much about that, but yeah that's where it was and I think it's a good idea.' He sort of insinuates that he was part of it. He doesn't explicitly say it, but the language he uses, he's like 'I don't really want to talk about it but I was there, I saw it all happening.'
He said 'You know it's funny, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm usually the guy who you'd unionize against, but I thought it was a good idea to have a union.' It's as if he was the one riling people up in the background. He's like this little Forrest Gump character, experiencing all these things in the background and potentially being a pivotal part of the story, but he doesn't really talk about it."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.