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About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wasn't this pretty recent? Did they buy the company just to lay people off??

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Buying and "streamlining" is a pretty common practice, yeah. ~~Epic~~ Songtradr bought them for the tech and userbase, not for their employees.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The layoffs are related to the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr.

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/bandcamps-layoffs-songtradr-1235758123/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd forgotten who was selling to who, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

That's often how it works. Duplicate middle management particularly is usually less needed after a merger.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I remember hearing that Harmonix was also acquired by Epic Games and there was a lot of speculation of a collaboration to reboot Rock Band using the Bandcamp library.
One of the lead developers at Harmonix was asked about this on Reddit and they only replied with an emphatic "No."
Seeing this now brings the bigger picture into focus.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If another company buys another company, they ALWAYS get rid of a large portion of the workforce.

Mergers fuck things up, they don't make them better: https://youtu.be/Dq09UQ40lUY?si=YwS4BAytLKu7a2lL

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

One of the shit things about mergers is sometimes you get transferred to another division with a culture that doesn't gel with you at all.

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