Swiggy laysoff 400 employees.
Flipkart laysoff 1000 employees.
Microsoft laysoff 1900 employees.
2024 is getting worse than 2023.
Anonymous 6
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Seems very similar to the stories of the 2008 crash. Good thing is that some of the greatest startups are born in such crashes. AirBnB, Slack both started in the 2008 crash.
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