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- Personal pivot. It’s hard to find a founder with a more chaotic pandemic experience than Amy Nelson. The founder and co-CEO of the Riveter spent 2020 figuring out how to save her company, which started as a coworking business but was forced to close its locations amid lockdowns.
Then, in April 2020 her husband was told he was the subject of a federal criminal investigation over his past employment scouting land for Amazon data centers; he was never charged. Amazon later filed a civil lawsuit alleging his involvement in a fraud and kickback scheme, which he has denied. Amazon has previously declined to discuss the case. The civil case is still pending.
