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Back to news homeSocial app IRL lays off 25% of team, says it has enough cash to last well into 2024
“We have all seen the state of the market,” IRL CEO and co-founder Abraham Shafi wrote in a company-wide memo where the social app announced it would be dramatically cutting […]
Everyone is drafting their own startup Black Swan memo
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh, human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. “You can often pick up significant market […]
A weaker economy won’t solve the tech talent crunch overnight
But it could lead to more balance later this year Ron Miller 10 hours As bad economic news piles up seemingly on a daily basis, we don’t know what the […]
A brutal week of layoffs
Hi friends. In case you missed it last week: I’m Greg, and I’m handling Week in Review now that Lucas is off with Anita building their new crypto-focused podcast/newsletter, Chain […]
Better.com CTO steps down, agrees to voluntary separation in wake of mass layoffs
Diane Yu, CTO of Better.com, has agreed to a voluntary separation plan that the digital mortgage lender offered earlier this week, according to a report by Bloomberg and as seen […]
“We probably pissed away $200 million,” Better.com CEO told employees in layoffs meeting
When Better.com CEO Vishal Garg laid off 900 employees, or about 9% of the company’s staff, in early December, the startup world was shocked with his callous delivery. Now a video […]
Better.com offering employees 60-days severance, losing ‘tens of millions’ per month per sources
Less than one month after laying off 3,000 employees, digital mortgage lender Better.com is offering its corporate, product, design and engineering employees 60 days paid severance, or voluntary separation plans, […]
Better.com teaches us how not to downsize a company
Over the past four months, digital mortgage lender Better.com has conducted a mass layoff not once, but twice. The company also badly botched a mass layoff not once, but twice. […]
Better.com loses more senior execs as employees brace for another mass layoff
Things are getting worse at Better. More executives have resigned from Better.com nearly three months after the online mortgage lender laid off 900 employees via Zoom and as the company […]