The early signs of startup layoffs to come
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a
single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. As the team takes a break this week, we decided to replay an old yet prescient episode from earlier this week. In February, Natasha
and Alex asked: WHAT CAN STARTUPS LEARN FROM THE RISE, AND NOW STRUGGLES, OF HOPIN? FOR COMPANIES THAT GREW LIKE WEEDS, WHAT’S NEXT? Hopin was one of the first tech companies to conduct
layoffs in 2022; and as we said then, while it is is perhaps a very visible canary, it is hardly the only startup that rode COVID-19’s economic disruptions to new heights. Tell us how the
episode aged, and if you’re on team reckoning or team recorrection? > Hopin’ into lessons from Peloton The market is changing. And while Hopin grew rapidly in 2021, a host of companies
that thrived during COVID-19 are now resetting both internal and external expectations. New year, new market. _Equity drops every Monday at 7 a.m. PDT and Wednesday and Friday at 6 a.m. PDT,
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