This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "Founders Are Cutting 35% of Their Team" (created 2026-04-02). The excerpt is a spoken commentary by a single speaker describing that some large companies (example given: ~ $500M/year) are planning substantial layoffs—around 30–35%—targeting non-technical employees who are not "AI native," framed as founders/CEOs responding to AI-related changes in workforce needs.
One of my friends, they do about, let's just say, $500 million a year or so. They know that the vast majority of their companies are not on top of AI. I will tell you, most CEOs right now, most founders, unfortunately, what I'm getting from a lot of text messages, I get one text message every single week. Just recently, this, this company doing $500 million a year, they're like, we're looking at making some pretty drastic cuts. I'm like, how many? What percent of people are you going to cut? Like, probably, you know, 30-35% or so. And these are non-technical people. So they're looking at the non-technical people, um, that aren't AI native, and they're going to be cutting.
