Sam Parr: Meetup.com founder Scott Heiferman now works in an Amazon warehouse
“And as of late, if you go to his LinkedIn, he has not made an ordeal out of this. This is all other people like us talking about it, making an ordeal out of it. But now he's an Amazon warehouse worker and he's working in the Amazon warehouse and he kind of is …”
Meetup founder Scott Heiferman took a job at an Amazon warehouse
“He didn't tell anybody, but people saw him update his LinkedIn and it said Amazon associate or like warehouse associate or something. Basically he's back at a Amazon warehouse now being a pickpacker kind of minimum wage job again.”
Scott Heiferman sold iTraffic for approximately $15 million
“He sells it for around fifteen million dollars which is something like thirty million bucks in today's money.”
Scott Heiferman sold Meetup.com to WeWork for a rumored $200 million
“So in 18 or 19, something like that, he sells meetup.com to WeWork. The price was rumored to be two hundred million, but who knows?”
Meetup founder Scott Heiferman built the first Sony website in 1994
“His first job out of college is actually at Sony. And he tells Sony, he's like, Hey, this is like 94, 95. He's like, the Internet's going to be a thing. And they're like, okay, kid, like whatever you say, he's like, no, no, no, you should have like a website. …”
Scott Heiferman sold Fotolog for approximately $90 million
“I think he sold it for like ninety million bucks or something.”
Meetup founder Scott Heiferman was constrained by a small market size
“I think if that guy would have worked on something else, it actually would have, he would have been significantly more successful. And some of these guys, it's kind of like they're Lance Armstrong and they're riding the Tour de France in a mountain bike or wit…”
Meetup founder Scott Heiferman called Weebly the stupidest idea in 2006
“Well, in, in the summer of 2006, after writing that first line of code I went and pitched Weebly at the New York Tech Meetup, and it was a thousand people. It was, we were kind of alpha stage at that point, and it was in front of a thousand people, and I gave …”