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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 …”
Nonprofit barcode monopoly GS1 generates $81M annually and holds $416M in assets
“So last year, 80, eighty one million dollars in revenue. Barcode sales makes up 90, 93% of this. And again, a barcode is nothing. It's literally like just a set of lines that they're selling for ninety million dollars a year. And they now have four hundred and…”
Pompliano: Bill Miller was Amazon's largest outside shareholder at around 15%
“And I think at one point he was the single largest outside shareholder of Amazon and owned like 15%.”
Puri: UnitedHealth stock outperformed Amazon and Google after Obamacare passed
“Oh, you know, like, as the, as Obamacare kicked in, the stock price went from, like, 24 dollars a share to 400 dollars a share now. And so you know, that was a better investment than Amazon, Google, Netflix, whatever, during the same period of time because the…”
Saylor: Bitcoin Hit $1T Faster Than Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, or Google
“It took Google 22 years to get to a trillion. It took Amazon 24 years to get to a trillion. It took Apple 42 years to get to a trillion. It took Microsoft 44 years to get to a trillion. It took Bitcoin 12”
Puri: Buying FAANG stocks outperformed top VC returns over 10 years
“If you had just brought, bought the fang companies, so Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google in the 10 years it outperformed all VCs or sorry, It outperformed even this sort of top like expected returns of venture capital. So the public market, if you just bought th…”
Blake Scholl ran a $300M Amazon P&L at age 24
“And by the age of 24, he's running a three hundred million dollar P&L inside of Amazon. He's the GM of that business.”
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.”
Parr: Romance novels have the highest buyer volume on Amazon
“Because if you look at the liquidity of the marketplace on Amazon, romance novels has the most amount of buyers and also like the most amount of transactions.”
Zesty Paws generates $8 million monthly on Amazon and $7 million retail
“It's estimated on Amazon. They are doing around 800, sorry, eight million dollars a month on Amazon only. And then probably another seven million through their retail outlets.”