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Bumble Laying Off 37%
- ortusdux 3y agoSee also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39530676 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39530676
- blah-yeah 3y agoNot surprised. I am not a fan of their app-- barely had any matches, yet I regularly have several matches on other dating apps (Hinge, Tinder). There are apparently some inefficiencies going on their application design or business model-- which I glean merely as a former user of Bumble. I recently deleted it.
- frail_figure 3y agoAre you aware of rules 1 and 2?
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- 0xCAP 3y agoI can't even imagine how a simple product such as theirs would even require 350 employees to operate it
- readthenotes1 3y agoIt's Parkinson's Law... The more people you have, the more managers you have, the more you need to communicate, the more people you need. It's a death spiral
- 1letterunixname 3y ago90% of business activities are generic, duplicated effort. Engineers, product managers, marketing directors, and executive oversight are just about the only essential, less replaceable functions. A common failure of most businesses is when they become a pyramid-building enterprise with the inertia of an aircraft carrier powered by oars. Small teams of can get shit done-ers should expand slowly with continued success, and broken up before they get too big to stay nimble with the support of a common platform of business functions. Virgin Group was the best example of this.