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.

Jan 9, 2023

39:39

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How to Change the Culture of Meetings

01:55

Are the Layoffs Still Going on in Tech?

01:43

What's Going to Happen With Bed Bath and Beyond?

01:50

Introduction

2min

The Big Story of the Week Is Amazon Lays Off 17,000 People From Corporate

2min

The Amazon Whole Foods Acquisition Story

2min

What Are the Types of Layoffs at Whole Foods?

2min

Is Peloton a Baby Layoff?

2min

Are the Layoffs Still Going on in Tech?

2min

What's Going to Happen With Bed Bath and Beyond?

2min

My Salad Shooter Joke

2min

Is Bed Bath and Beyond the Coupon Economy?

3min

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Bed Bath and Beyond

3min

11.

Crowdfunding Campaigns - What's What You Got?

3min

12.

Shopify Says You're on Double Secret Probation

2min

13.

Meetings Are the Problem, Isn't It?

2min

14.

How to Change the Culture of Meetings

2min

15.

The Reduction in Meetings Is Just Fascinating You Know

2min

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How Do You Know if a Company Is Running Well?

5min

17.

Theranos

3min

We get it. You don't want to read the news each week, but you still want to know the top 3 or 4 big things that happened in tech, start-up, or business?

Our solution is this podcast.

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

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