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Re:Bolt announces layoffs by halfdan on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @05:16PM (#31510677)
Having 5000 employees will do that quickly.
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Re:Bolt announces layoffs by nrmitchi on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @05:24PM (#31510775)
From what I'm seeing they had ~550 employees as of the beginning of this year (~4 months ago). This was up from ~270 in Sept 2021 (~4 months prior).

I would find it very hard to believe they have increased their headcount by 900% (~4500 people) in 4 months.

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Re:Bolt announces layoffs by datalopers on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @05:32PM (#31510861)
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bolt-com/

While not everyone has a linkedin, 900 employees seems like a reasonably safe pre-layyoffs estimate?

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Re:Bolt announces layoffs by polote on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @05:36PM (#31510917)
Among the 900 a lot of them are drivers at the Bolt delivery company (So not the same one)
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