Jeff HassemerCEO, FirestarterMarketing.ai · The Strategy Architect | Agency Accelerator | Architecting Bold Strategies | AI + Marketing That Scales | Founder @ FireStarterMarketing.AI

The tsunami of layoffs — become a company of one #substack #shorts

3 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker reflects on the recent wave of massive layoffs, highlighting Oracle's reported 20,000‑30,000 job cuts as a "tsunami" that is beginning to affect families directly. Rather than analyzing the causes, the speaker emphasizes the inevitability of further cuts and urges listeners to prepare by transitioning to a "company of one"—a solo, self‑sufficient business model. The speaker frames this shift as both lucrative and a community effort, encouraging people to learn together how to become independent operators.

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So yeah, that was our 5 really interesting stories. Anything in, uh, did you see the rapid fires or anything here that you think was, was pretty interesting to talk about? I think from where you and I focused a couple years ago and, and because it's just all the buzz with people that we know, um, and care about was the Oracle, right? It's, and this for whatever reason, and maybe because it was Oracle and it was, you know, 20 to 30,000 cuts depending on who you talk to. This is the one where finally I have people in my family. Right. We're calling like, you know, like all that stuff you were talking about, like now I'm seeing it, you know, now it's hitting. And I'm like, you don't even know what's about to hit on cuts. It's that, it's absolute tsunami of cuts. And so it's not, you know, like not a forum here to debate like why these happen and how they happen and the differences between the different cuts that happen, just that they are going to happen. And what you and I have been evangelizing, like people figure out how to become a company of one. That's what the world is. The world going forward for many of us. Is becoming a very lucrative company in one, and, uh, working on that together as a community, how to do that.