In an email to employees, CEO Howie Liu cites a shift in focus from "bottoms-up adopted product" to "bringing connected apps to large enterprises." “At the time, I believed we could successfully pursue all of them in parallel." says the Airtable founder. "However, in taking a hard look at our efforts in the current market environment, we've identified the teams best positioned to capture the opportunity in enterprise..." #tech #airtable #atlassian #asana #monday.con #trello #meta #google #amazon #layoffs
Layoffs.fyi is using Airtable to power this data too if you look on the website. You can't make this up
Will layoff.fyi have layoff?
It will show up on layoffs.fyi
CEO was wrong, price of mistake is employees lose their livelihood
It’s a bit over dramatic
Is it Apple? Is the CEO being punished for getting it wrong or just the employees?
Seems like jargon generated using chatGPT.
Another douchebag ceo using fluffy language to justify their incompetence
Why being racist??
Just goes to show you how little these companies actually care for their employees
There is no care. It is business bro/babe.
It’s always been this way. This should be a massive wake up call to anyone who thought differently.
CEOs showing why they totally deserve their enormous compensation 🙄
And I got an email asking me to interview for airtable 2 weeks ago 🙄
These things happen under the wraps man.
I’ve been interviewing with them. I’m supposed to have my next one early next week. I reached out to the recruiter to ask if it’s still happening, but no response 😬
In my experience, shifting to enterprise is usually the make or break moment for a lot of these companies. More often than not, the breaking moment. Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s more layoffs within the next 12-18 months.
"bottoms-up adopted product" "bringing connected apps to large enterprises." Wtf does this even mean
It means more of a sales-led motion to break into enterprises and do tops-down selling (selling to the CMO, CEO, etc) versus a product-led self-serve motion for the masses (“bottoms up” means adopted by IC’s or individual teams). Not saying they are totally dropping the latter, but that’s what his buzz-wordy jargon implies. Most likely, the sales teams which were focused on down-market segments (SMB, Mid-Market) were impacted more than the upmarket Enterprise sales teams.
Sales here, been seeing a lot of Commercial reps/managers get laid off as well as business development for that segment
Sounds like a bunch of corporate jargon.
it is