layoffs
3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 13, 2024 by Ben Horowitz · across every show →
Everything said about layoffs, oldest first
Jan 13, 2024 negative
May 2, 2024 negative
Andreessen: CEOs arbitrarily choose layoff sizes based on PR optics
“There's like all this lore and kind of stories get told, and so it's like, okay we're gonna do a layoff. We need to cut costs and we knew that we overhired, and we got sloppy shit all over the place. And so we're gonna do a layoff, and like, we don't want to d…”
May 2, 2024 negative
Horowitz: Any layoff size breaks employee trust and company culture
“If you do any cut, then you've broken trust with the employees, so you've kind of created a cultural problem in the sense that Okay. I gave you a job. I told you this was going to be great. And then like, I let you go. So I broke a promise. I broke trust. Trus…”