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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago

About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

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About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

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Songtradr extended offers to half of Bandcamp workers.
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    Why wouldn’t you plan for the worst?

    I really don’t understand how on one hand all of these CEOs and investor types are geniuses and just built different but on the other hand they’re hiring people and firing people because they couldn’t predict the line on graph doesn’t always go up.

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      If I had to guess, it’s because of money. There was more incentive at the time to grow fast and try to maximize profit than to limit growth and potential profits in case of a market downturn. Tim slightly explains what happened.

      For a while now, we’ve been spending way more money than we earn, investing in the next evolution of Epic and growing Fortnite as a metaverse-inspired ecosystem for creators. I had long been optimistic that we could power through this transition without layoffs, but in retrospect I see that this was unrealistic.

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