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

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“[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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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products. We hired the ex-CTO of Sears, and other senior executives out of Disney in software. We went from $9M in sales to $624M in sales in eighteen months, and sold out at 19x EBITDA.