The Outsiders with Chris Bakke, Alex Cohen and Michael Girdley

#1 - Alex’s Peloton. Amazon lays off 18,000. Shopify bans meetings. Bed Bath and Beyond bankrupt. Salad Spinners and Greta.

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Hosts: @anothercohen , @ChrisJBakke & @girdley


In this episode, we talked about the following:


  • The white-collar recession & massive Lay-offs
  • The story behind the Amazon takeover of Wholefoods
  • Should you be worried about the layoffs yet?
  • Bed, Bath and Bankruptcy: The least surprising news of 2023 so far
  • How would @anothercohen turn BBB around?
  • Shopify installed a “Big Brother” bot to keep employees from scheduling shitty meetings
  • Greta’s Massive burn on Andrew Tate


    • Links

    1. Bed, Bath, and Bankruptcy:
      2. https://www.wsj.com/articles/bed-bath-beyond-faces-potential-bankruptcy-filing-11672926677

    2. Shopify’s Big Brother story: “Just say no” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-03/shopify-ceo-tobi-lutke-tells-employees-to-just-say-no-to-meetings

    3. Greta’s MASSIVE burn:
      4. https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1608056944501178368?s=20&t=iqgEwzM5w4CNh7VRR7I4UA
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