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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 …”
Sam Parr Dec 30, 2024 ▶ 36:49 The 2024 Milly Awards
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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%.”
Anthony Pompliano Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 12:13 3 Business Ideas You Should Start in 2024 (ft. Pomp) (#524)
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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”
Michael Saylor Mar 17, 2021 ▶ 58:20 MFM #161: Why Michael Saylor Believes Bitcoin is Hope
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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…”
Shaan Puri Mar 12, 2020 ▶ 46:38 Nicotine Gum, Dating Apps for the Elderly & Vested Shares Tax | My First Million Podcast 03-03-2020
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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.”
Shaan Puri Aug 7, 2024 ▶ 0:43 He Sold His Company For $15M, Then Got A Job At McDonald’s
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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.”
Sam Parr Jul 28, 2022 ▶ 25:19 The Easiest Way To Make $10,000/Month In Passive Income
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Chamath pitched Amazon reaching a $3T valuation back in 2016
“I remember when Chamath went on stage in 2016 and he was like, there's a multi trillion dollar company hidden in plain sight. And he made a case for why Amazon was going to get to three trillion by 20, 25. This is back in 2015.”
Shaan Puri Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 3:59 What Stock Would Warren Buffett Buy If He Started Over In 2024?
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Campbell: Bezos Founded Amazon After Seeing Internet Grow 2,700% Annually
“When Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he noticed this like crazy stat, you know, this new thing called the internet was growing 2700% per year.”
Patrick Campbell Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 3:21 Brainstorming Ideas with The $200M Man | ft. Patrick Campbell (#519)
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