<story><title>Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/tech-layoffs-are-feeding-a-new-startup-surge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qqtt</author><text>Good. Both Google and Amazon are barreling down the path of democratizing scale and infrastructure with their cloud offerings. It&amp;#x27;s never been easier to reach millions of users in a short amount of time with your product. These are the companies that will end up ultimately challenging them down the road for talent and potentially even hitting at their core business models of search and commerce (we&amp;#x27;ve already seen hints of start ups rising to do this, like OpenAI challenging search and Shopify testing the waters of it&amp;#x27;s own fulfillment network).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s going to be interesting to watch Google and Amazon become so dependent on their infrastructure revenue that they essentially turn into the Oracle&amp;#x2F;IBM of today. Hope all those layoffs were worth it for the bottom line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arbuge</author><text>&amp;gt; Both Google and Amazon are barreling down the path of democratizing scale and infrastructure with their cloud offerings. It&amp;#x27;s never been easier to reach millions of users in a short amount of time with your product.&lt;p&gt;The second statement does not follow from the first.&lt;p&gt;What is true (partly because of the first statement) is that building is now easier than ever. Precisely because of that, however, rising above all the noise and reaching millions of users is now arguably harder than it was previously.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/tech-layoffs-are-feeding-a-new-startup-surge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qqtt</author><text>Good. Both Google and Amazon are barreling down the path of democratizing scale and infrastructure with their cloud offerings. It&amp;#x27;s never been easier to reach millions of users in a short amount of time with your product. These are the companies that will end up ultimately challenging them down the road for talent and potentially even hitting at their core business models of search and commerce (we&amp;#x27;ve already seen hints of start ups rising to do this, like OpenAI challenging search and Shopify testing the waters of it&amp;#x27;s own fulfillment network).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s going to be interesting to watch Google and Amazon become so dependent on their infrastructure revenue that they essentially turn into the Oracle&amp;#x2F;IBM of today. Hope all those layoffs were worth it for the bottom line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Salgat</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why Google and Amazon would invest all this money in these employees building up their tech and tribal knowledge just to lay them off. Do these companies not expect to grow in the future? Seems like just freezing hiring for a year or two would save you more money in the long run rather than having to rehire and rebuild all this expertise.</text></comment>