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2024 Tech Layoffs Masterlist

From major layoffs at Tesla, Amazon and Microsoft to small fintech startups and apps, as covered by Techcrunch

July 2024

  • Kaspersky (Cybersecurity company): Laying off dozens of employees, exiting U.S. market
  • Salesforce (CRM so...
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haan bohot achha faad do subah subah sabki

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Start-ups founders nowadays - Beta ek zamana tha jab ham bhi gareeb hua krte the , Sara Paisa employees ko salary, op...

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Ubisoft to Shut Down XDefiant, Layoffs Loom

  • Ubisoft announced the shutdown of XDefiant by June 2025, with nearly 300 layoffs across its San Francisco, Osaka, and Sydney offices.
  • Players of the free-to-play shooter will receive refunds for recent purchases, and access to third-...
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2024 Master Layoffs Tracker - Indian + Global

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  1. Across the year, more than 149,000 employees in tech were laid off from January through November 2024 alone, with August 2024 seeing the highest single-month total exceeding 26,000 job cuts.
  2. Major global tech giants (...
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Sentient Labs raises $85Mn. Co-Founder is Sandeep Nailwal (Polugon Founder). WTF?

Help me understand - what happened to Polygon? Didn't they raise several 100s of millions from Sequoia etc. That went poof? On to AI next?

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"Sentient is a cloud-sourced AI company using blockchain incentives but fundamentally an AI company" VCs: "Shut up a...

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Polygon is still functioning and one of the biggest companies in web3. They are doing big partnerships with big brand...

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This is the true face of Indian startup economy. A bunch of grifters and truckloads of black money changing hands. Te...

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Polygon Layoffs

Not sure how many people here work in the Web 3 industry but Polygon just announced they've laid of about 20% of their workforce.

That's not including all the people they've been quietly laying off since June of 2022