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Re:Twitter announces layoffs by diego on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @11:32AM (#10381119)
Startup world? This is a public company with thousands of employees who can get rid of 336 of them. It's pretty far from the startup world. This is the corporate world, and it happens to companies with long histories when their environment changes.
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Re:Twitter announces layoffs by qwertyFish on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @03:11PM (#10382759)
To counter, Twitter is a growth stage company and while public, it's value is priced exclusively on future value. It is only a 9 year old company working out product market fit and has only had a few profitable quarters, I only noted feb 2014 but there are likely a few more.

So is it a startup? Idk wtf a startup is but Twitter isn't a blue chip.

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Re:Twitter announces layoffs by odbol on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @01:58PM (#10388201)
To counter, Facebook has been around the same amount of time, and would you call them a startup? Are you saying if a company is successful, they are not a startup, and if they aren't, we'll just keep calling them a startup until they die off like most other startups?
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