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Amazon to lay off 10K employees, FTX saga update, Shopify's reverse AR platform & more | E1612

This Week in Startups

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Amazon CEO Announces 10,000 Executive Layoffs

The layoffs could start as soon as this week and would focus specifically on corporate employees in the devices organization. Amazon S330,000 corporate employees has 1.6 million total global employees when you include delivery drivers and warehouse workers. 3% is the smallest riff reduction in force that we've seen. It's almost not even worth announcing a 3%.

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