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It's sad how awful Twilio's engineering has become. I used it super early on and it was amazing, and while they had hiccups, they were never major and they were growing pains.

Today they have incidents almost every week, and now data breaches.



Yeah, its not surprising what a bunch of layoffs will do. The Authy people have been gone for a while.


Not financial advice:

Also having an investor base that demands removing as much equity compensation as possible. (Whilst, IMO, not being aggressive enough to cut executive compensation)

But it's no surprise that when you ask management/executives "who needs to be laid off", the answer is not that many managers/executives...

I do think Kho is the right person for the job though, and Aidan was surprisingly smart too, so I my[1] bet is that they'll get there.

[1]: I'm long twilio btw.


The company has had terrible profitability metrics and needed to cut a ton of fat. Maybe they laid off the wrong people though.




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