This AI-Pilled CEO's Memo Cutting over 21% of the Company Is a Prime Example of the New Layoffs Playbook
Jarek Kutylowski said smaller teams and more AI will reshape DeepL after the company cut about 250 jobs, or over 21% of staff.
- On Thursday, Cologne-based DeepL announced it would cut about 250 employees—roughly a quarter of its workforce—as founder Jarek Kutylowski said artificial intelligence had made these roles redundant.
- Kutylowski described the layoffs as the "most difficult I've had to make in my career," citing a "massive structural shift" in work fueled by AI requiring faster, smaller teams.
- To accelerate this transition, the founder wrote he would go "deeper into founder mode" while opening a San Francisco office to rethink how the company builds products with AI.
- Tech giants including Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta have cut thousands of jobs this year, while Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is experimenting with "one person teams" to control costs.
- While firms like DeepL aim to "define the next decade," industry figures like Sam Altman have cautioned that some companies use layoffs for "AI washing" rather than genuine innovation.
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This AI-pilled CEO's memo cutting over 21% of the company is a prime example of the new layoffs playbook
DeepL CEO Jarek Kutylowski's layoff memo references tech's favorite buzzwords.Big Event Media/Getty Images for HumanX ConferenceDeepL laid off 250 employees. CEO Jarek Kutylowski's memo referenced AI, smaller teams, fewer layers, and founder mode."We are currently living through a massive structural shift," Kutylowski wrote. "That shift is because of AI."Layoff memos are starting to look more similar. The DeepL message is a prime example.What's …
The German translation software provider DeepL is planning a comprehensive job reduction. About 250 jobs were lost, company founder and CEO Jarek Kutylowski wrote in a post on the online network LinkedIn on Thursday. The Cologne-based company has about 1000 employees so far. Kutylowski justified his decision with a larger conversion in the course of an intensified internal use of artificial intelligence. "In order to work effectively with AI, sm…
The Cologne-based AI translation company DeepL has announced that it will reduce about a quarter of the number of jobs in the company.
In the future, CEO Jarek Kutylowski wants to use more artificial intelligence. The start-up has developed a translation software.
In many tech companies, jobs are threatened by AI. The first companies already start with job cuts. The German provider of translation software DeepL is also pulling the red pencil.
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