MatterMade downsized from 37 employees in 2022 amid a revenue decline
Eli Rubel · Imagine doing $6.1m in revenue helping Loom, Dropbox, and G2 break $100m in ARR · Nov 24, 2022 · at 16:06
Eli Rubel details MatterMade's downsizing and revenue contraction following the 2021 tech market boom.
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“We'll be lower this year. Yeah. I mean, we were 37 employees earlier in the year. We had to downsize.”
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