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If anyone wants to skip right to "why are we laying off people" go to 2:36 in the video

• greazy 5y ago
  Thank you.
• Kye 5y ago
  He has a bad habit of rambling and never getting to a point. He had a ~20 minute video on their recent $155m round and never actually said what they were going to do with it. Just a lot of fluff about "wow! creative economy! integrations!" and how you can assemble a whole business as an individual from API as a Service type companies (Stripe, etc) while their API is being sunset.
  • oceanplexian 5y ago
    This is not the only San Francisco CEO that I've seen follow this playbook almost word for word. Even using the same phraseology.. e.g. "I blame myself. It's my fault we had to do this", a bit about how "We're shifting the way we build products" so we can "Help creators grow their business", and "The $company will be stronger for this decision". I am a bit burnt out when it comes to the industry at the moment and perhaps jaded, but my guess is these CEOs have outsourced their apology to the same local reputation-management consultants, and that's why they all sound identical. If the leadership really cared about employees they would write the apology themselves, have some backbone and admit they terminated people due to cost cutting or performance reasons. Offer severance privately and move on. The rest of this is theater.
  • unity1001 5y ago
    Their api is not being sunset. A lot of large sites/creators and major web entities as partners are using it.