We are surrounded by many rumors about a presumed "tech bubble burst" in 2022. It could be a complete collapse or just a correction amplified by hundreds of articles about the same layoffs or hiring freezes.
To follow the signal through the media noise, I have started to collect all the available links about the alleged catastrophe.
- [FEB10TH] Layoffs at Hopin and Peloton (@GergelyOrosz)
- [MAY05TH] Facebook is freezing hiring (BusinessInsider)
- [MAY06TH] Post-pandemic reset leads to wave of layoffs in tech (Techcrunch)
- [MAY09TH] Uber CEO tells staff company will cut down on costs, treat hiring as a ‘privilege’ (CNBC)
- [MAY11TH] Tech is hitting the brakes on hiring even as other industries keep adding jobs
- [MAY12TH] (Spanish) Llegó las horas de los despidos para las startups (@davmiranda via Expansion)
- [MAY12TH] Here’s the memo Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal sent about firing execs and a hiring freeze (The Verge)
- [MAY13TH] Tech employees face another tough week of cross-stage layoffs (Techcrunch)
- [MAY17TH] Coinbase will slow down hiring from its original plan to TRIPLE headcount this year (Coinbase)
- [MAY17TH] Netflix lays off 150 employees (CNBC)
- [MAY17TH] (Spanish) Las grandes tecnológicas han dejado de contratar y afrontan algo inédito en su historia: vacas flacas (Xataka)
- [MAY18TH] (Spanish) Las tecnológicas ante su tormenta perfecta financiera: hundimientos, batacazo cripto y capital riesgo congelado (Xataka)
- [MAY23TH] Klarna announcement from CEO Sebastian
- [MAY24TH] Gorillas fires half its employees at HQ (Sifted)
- [MAY25TH] Embattled Payments Startup Bolt Is Cutting One-Third of Staff (Bloomberg)
- [MAY26TH] PayPal Begins Cutting Staff as Its Push to Reduce Costs Ramps Up
- [JUN3RD] Coinbase is rescinding job offers for people who haven't started yet (@Carnage4Life)
- [JUN10TH] Trade Republic lays off numerous employees
- Meta
- Avo
- Better.com
- Bolt
- Cameo
- Carvana
- DataRobot
- Doma
- Fast
- Gopuff
- Gorilla
- Hopin
- klarna
- Latch
- MainStreet
- Mural
- Netflix
- Noom
- On Deck
- PayPal
- Peloton
- Reef
- Robinhood
- Sea
- Section4
- Send
- Thrasio
- Trade Republic
- Tudum (Netflix editorial arm)
- Unacademy
- Vroom
- WeDoctor
- Workrise
- Zwift
- Coinbase