AI personal-finance startup (~13 people, founded 2024, by Digit founder Ethan Bloch). OpenAI acqui-hired the team ~18 months in; Hiro wound down operations days later. Terms undisclosed.

Agentic-AI startup (co-founders David Singleton, ex-Stripe CTO; Hugo Barra; Nicholas Jitkoff). Meta acqui-hired the entire founding team into Superintelligence Labs just ~5 weeks after its public beta — VC backers got a premium on $56M raised; terms otherwise undisclosed.

Viral open-source personal AI agent (~198k GitHub stars) that runs over chat apps. After a bidding war with Meta, OpenAI acqui-hired its solo creator; the project stays open-source. Terms undisclosed.

Cut roughly 40% of staff (~4,000 people, 10,000 → under 6,000), telling shareholders AI tooling — not business weakness — was the reason, and predicting most companies would follow within a year.

“A significantly smaller team, using the tools we're building, can do more and do it better. And intelligence tool capabilities are compounding faster every week.”

Cut ~20% of staff (~1,000 people), the largest layoff in Wix's history, in a top-to-bottom rebuild around AI-native work (also citing the strengthening shekel).

“We have witnessed the most significant shift in how companies are built since the invention of modern programming languages in the 1970s … it is about rewiring how companies are built, how they think, how they manage and how they operate.”

Cut ~20% of staff and argued in a WSJ op-ed that AI has made an entire category of "measurer" roles — middle management, finance, legal, internal audit — obsolete.

“The vast majority of those we laid off last week were measurers … AI systems can now measure an organization with a level of objective detail and precision that was previously impossible.”

Solo-owned, bootstrapped vibe-coding platform — no co-founders, no outside funding. Built it in ~6 months to 250k users and profitability, then sold to Wix for $80M cash. (Had hired a small team of ~8 by the sale.)

AI coding IDE. After a ~$3B OpenAI deal collapsed and Google paid $2.4B to hire its CEO and top researchers, Cognition (maker of the Devin AI agent) acquired the remaining company — product, brand and team — for undisclosed terms.

Cut ~4,000 customer-support roles (support headcount 9,000 → 5,000), attributing it to Salesforce's own AI agents handling the work.

“I've reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000, because I need less heads.”

Said AI helped shrink Klarna's workforce by ~40% (≈5,000 → ≈3,000), mainly via a hiring freeze and attrition, and later warned other tech CEOs were "sugarcoating" AI's impact on jobs.

“The truth is, the company has shrunk from about 5,000 to now almost 3,000 employees. If you go to AI, it can do the jobs.”