{"id":16592,"date":"2026-07-18T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16592"},"modified":"2026-07-18T13:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:54:20","slug":"zoom-giving-away-150k-to-solopreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16592","title":{"rendered":"Zoom giving away $150K to \u2018solopreneurs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the massive rounds of layoffs in 2025, Zoom gave away $30,000 each to five solo business owners as part of its first-ever\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoom.com\/en\/audiences\/solopreneurs\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.zoom.com\/en\/audiences\/solopreneurs\/\">Zoom\u00a0Solopreneur 50 rankings<\/a> with\u00a0Fortune magazine.\u00a0No strings attached.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the projects and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoom.com\/en\/audiences\/solopreneurs\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.zoom.com\/en\/audiences\/solopreneurs\/\">results of how that went<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the massive rounds of layoffs in 2025, Zoom gave away $30,000 each to five solo business owners as part of its first-ever\u00a0Zoom\u00a0Solopreneur 50 rankings with\u00a0Fortune magazine.\u00a0No strings attached.\u00a0 Here are the projects and the results of how that went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4jC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16932,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592\/revisions\/16932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}