Jason Calacanis
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Is it occurring?
Is this just cover?
And are we AI washing?
The first one I want to give you an example of is Matthew Prince,
who's the CEO of Cloudflare, incredible company, public company.
Two weeks ago, I laid off more than 20% of my workforce.
I didn't do it because Cloudflare is struggling.
We posted record revenue growth, have strong free cash flow, and are adding an unprecedented number of customers, yada, yada, yada.
And he says, basically, he's getting rid of measures.
Measures are the people who manage people and who measure data.
And he just says, we're getting rid of all those people.
They're unnecessary because of AI.
And we'll be adding people in other positions.
At the same time, Zuckerberg did another round of layoffs.
And they were done in a way that people felt was not considered.
And a bit, what's the word?
Dystopian?
Dystopian.
Thank you, sir.
He did him in a pretty dystopian way.