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

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.