Chapter 1: What subscriptions are people paying for but not using?
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Let's talk about job security. Yesterday, Amazon fired 14,000, 10% of the workforce. 14,000 other jobs were cut last October. It wasn't finance-driven or AI. This was something employees never saw coming. I'm Kim Commando for ExpressVPN. When you're online, you're tracked. Keep your activity private and secure. Get protected now and get four extra months free at ExpressVPN.com slash Kim.
28,000 layoffs is a big deal, even for Amazon. If it wasn't a financial decision or jobs being replaced by AI, what was it? The answer, according to Amazon CEO Andy Jasser, is culture. Those employees in Amazon Web Services, Retail Sales, Prime Video, and HR did not fit in. They were involved in too many meetings, too much bureaucracy, too many mid-level bosses.
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Chapter 2: Why did Amazon lay off 14,000 employees?
And I'm not dissing lawyers. I love lawyers. Some of my best friends are lawyers. They're always super smart. But I can't stand paying $700 an hour, $500 an hour for all this stuff. As a matter of fact, when Barry's on the phone with a lawyer, I'm like, He doesn't need to know about the weather, okay? Just keep it right here. Keep it right here. Keep it right here.
And so they're getting into flat fees. And so a contract could be like two grand, a divorce, five grand, seven grand, whatever it may be. But is that going to end up being more expensive? I don't think so. Okay. I don't think so because I think you have like a fixed fee and you have a deliverable. So there's a value for that product.
And so I got a text from my favorite lawyer, John Duran, and he just said to me, you're killing me.
You're killing me. Is this your lawyer? Yes. So you must have fired him or told him to change his rates, right?
He knows it's coming, I guess you'd say. But it's also coming for anyone else who trades time for money, CPAs, marketing companies. I mean, anybody that you can really use AI. And it's also going to affect the learning pool because if you have a law firm of a hundred guys and gals, 20% may be juniors. And they're the ones that normally doing all the grunt work.
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Chapter 3: What cultural issues did Amazon's CEO identify?
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