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Re:On loyalty to Your Employer by shrikant on Thursday April 24, 2025 @05:49PM (#43787890)
I'm OOTL, what happened at Komoot..? Vaguely interested because I'd considered applying there for a role a year or so back but never went through with it...
Re:On loyalty to Your Employer by usrusr on Thursday April 24, 2025 @06:26PM (#43788189)
Founder(s) sold to Bendinggspoons who specialize in the kind of takeover where the buyer stops all development and tries to keep the money inflow from a service running with minimal maintenance crew. Evernote is the most famous example I think.

Apparently 80% are already gone:

https://escapecollective.com/how-komoot-lost-its-way/

(paywalled, but I think it's the definitive aftermath writeup, as opposed to all the older news that stop at speculating about layoffs that had not happened yet)