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

The Outsiders with Chris Bakke, Alex Cohen and Michael Girdley

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

Links

1. Bed, Bath, and Bankruptcy:
   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:
   https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1608056944501178368?s=20&t=iqgEwzM5w4CNh7VRR7I4UA