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Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

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Re: Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

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Sounds like a band-aid on a gaping wound.

But is it really? Or did a combination of COVID-tech-mania and low interest rates just boost stock prices well above what was actually reasonable?

There definitely has been a sentiment change on meta, but I think 'COVID-tech-mania' is a poor excuse for them failing to effectively diversify.

Re: Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

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I tried the new PS5 VR2. It’s definitely better than Oculus Quest. Makes you wonder what Facebook has been doing with all those billions spent on VR when Sony is able to produce a better product with a fraction of the investment.

By what measure? The headset is tethered, bulkier, more expensive, came out two years later and only has slightly higher resolution. It's good and I expect it to do well but it's not definitely better.

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Re: Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

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I wonder what effects this uncertainty will have on an organizational system. With multiple rounds of layoffs, talks of 'flattening', projects being cancelled, internal transfers being frozen, hiring being frozen, when does an organization finally become 'healthy' again? When are the right people in the right places making the right decisions again? Does an organization that has so much capital need to even care abou…

In 2022 their core business made 27 billion with 5 billion revenue if advertising income falls by ~12% ((27-24)/27) they are no longer profitable. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A421/production/... Haven't touched their platforms for years. User base in the USA keeps declining. They need to cut expenses.

you mean made $5b on $27b in revenue?

Re: Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

#34

I wonder what effects this uncertainty will have on an organizational system. With multiple rounds of layoffs, talks of 'flattening', projects being cancelled, internal transfers being frozen, hiring being frozen, when does an organization finally become 'healthy' again? When are the right people in the right places making the right decisions again? Does an organization that has so much capital need to even care abou…

In 2022 their core business made 27 billion with 5 billion revenue if advertising income falls by ~12% ((27-24)/27) they are no longer profitable. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A421/production/... Haven't touched their platforms for years. User base in the USA keeps declining. They need to cut expenses.

I have no idea what financial statement you’re looking at but this is not remotely correct.

Re: Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

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I tried the new PS5 VR2. It’s definitely better than Oculus Quest. Makes you wonder what Facebook has been doing with all those billions spent on VR when Sony is able to produce a better product with a fraction of the investment.

Unlike Facebook, Sony is a hardware company that basically makes everything. If Sony wants to spit out the best VR headset they can just call up their display division, camera division, sensors division, design division and put into a single device the bleeding edge and expertise of each one of them. Facebook on the other hand is left to toy with less stellar and more commercial offerings and does not have the history of hardware manufacturing experience to offer something exceptional.

Re: Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

#36

I tried the new PS5 VR2. It’s definitely better than Oculus Quest. Makes you wonder what Facebook has been doing with all those billions spent on VR when Sony is able to produce a better product with a fraction of the investment.

A wired VR device that can offload processing to a gaming machine is better than a wireless one? I'm shocked!

Re: Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

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Wall Street rewarded Meta with a massive jump in share price (+15% in one day) when Zuck stated on an earnings call that he was all now about efficiency (and therefore a tacit admission that he won't just throw the entire company off the VR cliff into the abyss). Zuck probably thinks more of the same will buy additional good will from Wall St.

+15% in one day, when the stock is already down 75% from its peak a year or two earlier, doesn't feel like a "massive jump".

Note that to counteract a 75% drop, you need to grow by +300%.

Re: Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week

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I wonder what effects this uncertainty will have on an organizational system. With multiple rounds of layoffs, talks of 'flattening', projects being cancelled, internal transfers being frozen, hiring being frozen, when does an organization finally become 'healthy' again? When are the right people in the right places making the right decisions again? Does an organization that has so much capital need to even care abou…

I've noticed more uncertainty, less comradery, a general malaise, lack of motivation and a lot less trust in the organization. A very very different feeling to a year ago.
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