Selling Your Company for $15 Million Then Working the Counter of McDonald’s
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E398: The founder of Meetup.com, Scott Heiferman, sold Meetup.com a few years ago for $200 million. Then he went to work as an associate at an Amazon fulfillment center.
Two decades before that, he sold a different company for $15 million. Then he went to work the counter of a McDonald’s.
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Scott Heiferman’s story: https://web.archive.org/web/20040616091238/http://www.heiferman.com/mcd/
00:00 Episode Overview 01:45 Avi Schiffmann’s Viral Gamble 06:18 Lessons from the Founder of Meetup.com 15:38 Marketing A Meltdown 21:55 Edward Sturm’s Absurd Consistency 24:22 Sign-Off
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