Welcome baaaAAAAaaaAAaack, culties!! Time to *ascend* to the 2024 era of Sounds Like A Cult š½ Kicking off with a damn bangāthe most colossal cult weāve ever covered (as in ~1.5 million employees and 310 million users colossal). It's the multi-pronged monster of convenience, which spares no one, no matter the costā¦ you guessed it, Amazon. Duh, we know, Amazon is a cultāfrom its notorious treatment of factory workers to its uncanny world-domination energy to its ānever leave usā messaging, itās obvious. But is Amazon a LYL, a WYB, or a GTFO-level cult? And is the verdict the same for both employees and consumers? To unpack this gazillion-dollar organization (religion?) from the inside, please welcome special guest Kristi Coulter, an ex-Amazonian who spent 12 years in the cultā¦ I mean, *company*ā¦ before defecting to write her new tell-all memoir, Exit Interview. Itās one of our juiciest conversations in SLAC history and we hope you enjoy it!! Thanks to all the listeners who leant their voice messages to this episode.
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