alt Hacker NewsHow does something like Tailwind lead to a company big enough that you can layoff 75% of the engineering team?
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eatonphil • last Wednesday at 4:41 PM
LinkedIn says the company was 2-10 employees. 75% laid off wouldn't have been a lot of people. Tough for them though.
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phonon • last Wednesday at 4:46 PM
It was three out of four people.
angryany • last Wednesday at 4:45 PM
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/1467...
In this comment, he says that he had to lay off 3 people.
Not sure if this means it was him+4engs and now it’s just him+1eng or if he’s including himself and he’s working alone now.
But either way, can’t be fun
kayo_20211030 • last Wednesday at 4:43 PM
3 of 4. Not a behemoth by any stretch. A bit sad.
whatamidoingyo • last Wednesday at 4:41 PM
I was wondering the same thing.
I don’t know how big the “team” was, but 75% suggests maybe 4 engineers, one left. The next number up that works is 8, and 8 full time engineers to work on tailwind seems like a lot.