Comment on Discord lays off 170 people, blames growing too quickly | TechCrunch

Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• LufyCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you read at least the summary from the bot, you’d see that discord isn’t and never was profitable.

  I wouldn’t call that “doing too well to fire people”, just means they fucked up and hired more people than they could financially/operationally afford

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• Donut@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can read the internal memo here. They increased their workforce by 400% in 3 years so it was bound to happen.

  The severance package is 5 months of pay plus a week for every year they worked there, and a slew of other things to help the transition to a new job.

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• RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aw damn, not growing fast enough… better fire some people.

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• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  growing too quick in the number of employees, not users/revenue.

  We grew quickly and expanded our workforce even faster, increasing by 5x since 2020

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