2022年12月7日

-广告- Fintech decacorn格纹公司今天宣布裁员260人，约占其员工总数的20%。广告——虽然谁将受到影响的具体细节尚不清楚，但近几个月来，有消息人士告诉TechCrunch，这家旧金山初创公司的工程团队可能会受到重大打击。今年3月，Plaid首席技术官让-丹尼斯·格雷兹告诉TechCrunch，他们在短短4年内将工程团队从20名工程师扩大到350人，规模扩大了17.5倍。今天的降息可能会逆转恶性通货膨胀。该公司的一位发言人没有透露有多少工程师受到影响，只是说“公司的各个团队”都受到了影响。他补充说，由于Plaid正在“与更新的员工人数目标保持一致，招聘等团队受到的影响比其他团队更大。广告——在Plaid网站上发布的一封致员工的信中，该公司首席执行官兼联合创始人扎克·佩雷特表示，新冠肺炎期间，该公司现有客户的使用量迅速增长，大量新客户也在增长，“收入大幅加速”。看到它。因此，该公司“积极招聘”以满足客户需求，并投资于新产品。然而，由于宏观经济的变化，格纹服装的客户经历了“低于预期的增长”，导致该公司放慢了脚步。 “The simple reality is that because of these macroeconomic changes, our pace of cost growth has outpaced our pace of revenue growth. I made the decision to hire and invest before revenue growth, and the current economic downturn, means That this revenue growth didn’t happen as quickly as expected. All affected employees will receive 16 weeks’ base pay in severance. Those who have been with Plaid for more than a year will get additional weeks. Plaid will also make a cash payment equal to 6 months of health care premiums for medical, dental and vision insurance coverage for employees and their dependents. In a practice that is becoming increasingly common, the company is also accelerating equity grants for employees who have worked for more than a year at the company by the vesting date of February 15, 2023. It is also waiving the one-year cliff for employees with equity who have not yet reached their one-year vesting cliff. Additionally, it says it will provide 6 months of ongoing mental health coverage for all departing employees, along with 6 months of career support and coaching services. The company also says it has a “dedicated immigration lawyer” for those working on work visas. Affected employees lost access to several Plaid systems in a move that Perret acknowledged may seem “abrupt”, but he deemed necessary “given the sensitive nature of data” in his industry. In April of 2021, Plaid raised a $425 million Series D led by Altimeter Capital, valuing the company at approximately $13.4 billion. This was after the deal to be acquired by Visa for $5.3 billion was called off due to regulatory concerns. A lot has happened since that lofty valuation and Plaid now competes directly with one of its partners, payments giant Stripe – which recently laid off more than 1,100 people. Earlier this year, Stripe announced a new product called Financial Connection, which gives Stripe’s customers a way to connect directly to their customer’s bank accounts to access financial data to trigger or drive certain types of transactions. gives way. Familiar? Then two weeks later, Plaid announced it was officially expanding from its core product of account linking — its first major expansion since its 2013 founding. Specifically, the startup said it is moving toward providing new tools for identity and income verification, fraud prevention, and account funding and disbursements — a move that puts it in even deeper competition with Stripe. For its part, Stripe was valued at $95 billion when it closed on a $600 million funding round in March of 2021. More recently, Plaid announced that it had named meta veteran Jon Anderson to serve as its new head of payments as it looks to facilitate payments for its partners in addition to taking it personally through its transfer offering. Payment facility was introduced. Plaid’s layoffs come amid a particularly tumultuous year for fintech startups. In addition to Stripe, neobank Chime Chime recently laid off 12% of its workforce, or some 160 employees. TechCrunch Senior Reporter Natasha Mascarenhas contributed reporting to this article. TechCrunch’s weekly fintech newsletter, The Interchange, launches May 1st! Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Got a news tip or insider information about a topic we cover? We’d love to hear from you. You can reach me at [email protected] Or you can drop us a note at [email protected] Click here to contact us if you prefer to remain anonymous, including SecureDrop (instructions here) and various encrypted messaging apps.)