The sad irony of this is that its still the wrong question. When startups have to do layoffs, the question isn't "who can I fire and keep the existing business

The sad irony of this is that its still the wrong question. When startups have to do layoffs, the question isn't "who can I fire and keep the existing business going" it is instead "who is the team I want building the next version of the product quickly enough to not go out of business" But every fork in the road is just exactly that, and not choosing a path quickly enough has been the death of many