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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

TechCrunch LA

“[W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff. The tech team layoffs are notable for a beauty retailer that has often described itself as a technology company.

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Alexander Kjerulf's Chief Happiness Officer blog, and surviving a downturn without layoffs

CEO Flow

Alexander Kjerulf is a great writer, and I recommend you check out his blog. By the way, I would never tell a CEO to do everything they can to avoid layoffs. Layoffs can hurt a culture, or it can help it – it depends on how they’re handled, and the unique situation of the company. recession so far.

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Alexander Kjerulf's Chief Happiness Officer blog, and surviving a downturn without layoffs

CEO Flow

Alexander Kjerulf is a great writer, and I recommend you check out his blog. By the way, I would never tell a CEO to do everything they can to avoid layoffs. Layoffs can hurt a culture, or it can help it – it depends on how they’re handled, and the unique situation of the company. recession so far.

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Alexander Kjerulf's Chief Happiness Officer blog, and surviving a downturn without layoffs

CEO Flow

Alexander Kjerulf is a great writer, and I recommend you check out his blog. By the way, I would never tell a CEO to do everything they can to avoid layoffs. Layoffs can hurt a culture, or it can help it – it depends on how they’re handled, and the unique situation of the company. recession so far.

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Alexander Kjerulf’s Chief Happiness Officer blog, and surviving a downturn without layoffs

CEO Flow

Alexander Kjerulf is a great writer, and I recommend you check out his blog. By the way, I would never tell a CEO to do everything they can to avoid layoffs. Layoffs can hurt a culture, or it can help it - it depends on how they’re handled, and the unique situation of the company. recession so far.

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MediaLab acquires messaging app Kik, expanding its app portfolio

TechCrunch LA

Popular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab. It echoes the same message from Kik’s chief executive Tim Livingston last week when he rebuffed earlier reports that the company would shut down amid an ongoing battle with the U.S.

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After Brain Cancer Drug Fails, Tocagen to Cut More Than Half of Staff

Xconomy

Following the late-stage failure of its lead program, an experimental gene therapy treatment for the most aggressive form of brain cancer, Tocagen will reduce its workforce by 65 percent, the company said Thursday. The layoffs will result in a staff of about 30 people by year’s end, Tocagen (NASDAQ: TOCA ) said in the press release.

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