Partykit confused me. They hired two people, then laid them off (https://twitter.com/threepointone/status/1724159621382754738) after raising 2.5 million, with nothing but a vague message about "the tech landscape is moving changing incredibly fast". That seems kind of callous?
I think it's a classic example of landing in that space of being a feature vs a product. I know from my part, I'm really fatigued on the SaaS model of spinning up so many different products from so many different providers for one freakin' project. So Partykit, while interesting tech, may have just struggled as independent infrastructure.
Partykit is actually powered by Cloudflare Workers, so it's a compatible acquisition that adds realtime to the workers platform. Plus like you said they had recently and unfortunately "stripped PartyKit way back" with some layoffs, so I'd imagine the acquisition was fairly cheap for Cloudflare.
A lot of folks on here complain about companies making long layoff announcements shrouded in "nice" speech. Finding the right balance seems to be hard for a lot of PR folks.
I don't know anything about what happened here, but I know Sunil is a good person and wouldn't have done this on a whim. Sometimes there are internal problems forcing painful decisions but you just can't go and tweet the details.
Good people make mistakes. Maybe the fired employees got really good severance packages? Maybe they were given introductions that led to immediate employment offers? I have no idea, but judging some one based on a tweet where they announced they had made a mistake that may have hurt two individuals is hardly fair.
I mean I think it's very telling since there was an acquisition nearly 6 months later by his previous company. That's quite an incestuous relationship, but hey he got his payday after removing two core contributors that were employees.
Why are you assuming they got severance? He wouldn't be legally complied to do so, and if he did he would have mentioned it.
I didn't assume anything, I suggested it may have happened. You seem to be the one assuming things and making accusations on another persons character. Its okay to ask questions, but we should do it nicely.
