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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by conradev on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:57PM (#45676648)
For “as insulated as possible”, I’d personally start a whole new corporate entity, like Verizon did with Visible.

It wholly owns Visible, and Visible is undercutting Verizon by being more efficient (similar to how Google Fi does it). I love the model – build a business to destroy your current one and keep all of the profits.

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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by edoceo on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:01PM (#45677041)
IIRC Intuit did that for QBO. Put a new team off-site and everything. The story I read is old (maybe was a business book) and my motivated searches gave nothing.

From what I remember it was also about splitting the finance reporting - so the up-start team isn't compared to the incumbent but to other early teams. Let's them focus on the key metrics for their stage of the game.

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