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  • Upvoting this so more people see how cringey it's written.
    by jcfrei
  • >Creators are earning billions of dollars each year on Patreon, and those earnings have continued to exhibit steady, strong growth.

    >Creators, members, revenue, and processing volume continue to show strong, consistent growth every month.

    lol strong consistent growth -> 20% layoff

    by colechristensen
  • I watched this dudes youtube channel where he makes music for years before I ever knew he was the CEO of pateron. It was a bit of a wtf moment when I found out.
    by fourseventy
  • What is it with companies doing mass-layoffs and stating no reasons whatsoever, in fact giving reasons why there's no need:

    > Second, Patreon’s core business is healthy and strong, and we’re going to be a rock for creators for decades to come. Hundreds of thousands of creators rely on Patreon for their livelihoods, businesses, ...

    > We’re reducing the size of our team by 20%, or ...

    by spwa4
  • No matter what, people who write articles about layoffs like this go straight onto my 'people to stay far away from' list. He is on it since the crying video of the last round of layoffs.
    by trentor
  • Patreon just does this every few years. At least Jack Conte didn’t post a video of himself crying about it this time.
    by natbennett
  • The rich get richer and the poor get more AI edited and toned condolence posting.
    by powerpcmac
  • The only possible positive thing out of this cringy article is that the severance is decent (for a US company). 4 months of pay and healthcare coverage through Year end. Everything else could have just been a couple of sentences.

    Companies need to stop doing this melodrama every time they decide to fire people. Everyone knows the goal is to make money and keep a company profitable for their shareholders. Why these melodramatic posts ? People would prefer honesty. Just say "We need to increase our profits or reduce costs or both and hence we have to lay people off. Here is what we are providing as a severance". That's it.

    by codegeek

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