Bending Spoons Plans To Cut 75% of WeTransfer Staff After Acquisition (techcrunch.com) 21
An anonymous reader shares a report: Italy-based app company Bending Spoons, which owns Evernote and Meetup, is planning to lay off 75% of the staff of file transfer service WeTransfer, TechCrunch has learned. Bending Spoons acquired the Dutch company in July for an undisclosed amount.
The company confirmed the plans for the WeTransfer layoff to TechCrunch. The staff that is being let go will be informed after Bending Spoons goes through local regulations in different countries regarding lay offs. Dutch media reported that WeTransfer has over 350 employees.
The company confirmed the plans for the WeTransfer layoff to TechCrunch. The staff that is being let go will be informed after Bending Spoons goes through local regulations in different countries regarding lay offs. Dutch media reported that WeTransfer has over 350 employees.
When you think of Enshittification (Score:4, Insightful)
Think of this company.
In contrast to Google, they do still offer the app (Score:2)
Google's graveyard is littered with hundreds of acquisitions that were buried in the following year(s).
That's what ya git! (Score:2)
Shrinking is the company's punishment for using such dim fonts on their website. It's a dumber fad than even microservices and async bloat*.
* They have their proper niches, but it's not "everywhere".
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This company seems massively overstaffed. How many people do you need to keep a file transfer app running?
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They need to have staff who invent ways to piss off we* geezers, such as dim fonts.
* "us geezers"? Grammer hard on Modnays.
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Not to mention time spent coding those Oohh Sooo Special Dark motifs that are all the rage with the kewl kidz out there
Yeah, you know it's gotta be kewl when the likes of Wikipedia are jumping on the Dark motif bandwagen
Pricing themselves out of the market (Score:4, Insightful)
Evernote was amazing when I started using close to a decade ago. I've never used the more advanced features, just a text editor that synchronized and organized my notes across various devices. The value for me tops out around $40 a year. When the prices skyrocketed a few years ago, I discovered the Notes app in the Apple ecosystem I was already dabbling in. It's not as full fledged a solution as Evernote was, but the app and the iCloud web version covers 6 of my 7 devices for zero additional cost. Evernote priced itself out of the market for basic users.
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Obsidian (Score:2)
Obsidian [obsidian.md] is the solution. Cross-platform, imports Apple Notes, free for personal use (and $50/year for the premium version).
Evernote wins in terms of integrations and its OCR, but if Apple Notes works well enough, Obsidian is a next-level solution.
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I downgraded from ($) Remember the Milk after a few years to free, personal Notion [notion.so] since the last few years and I am thrilled with Notion. I like their JIRA-like Agile to-do list, and I've downloaded a few other templates which I tweaked and served my purposes for free, (with free syncs between mobile and desktop too). Methinks they charge for collaboration which I'm not currently doing, although I certainly would! (Fuck JIRA and Confluence too, Notion rocks!)
Re: Pricing themselves out of the market (Score:2)
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Evernote priced itself out of the market for basic users.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Meetup seems to be doing the same thing. My bicycling group used Meetup to organize its weekly rides for the last 15 years or so, but a couple of months ago Meetup nearly doubled its hosting fees (from $198/year to $358/year)... and that is on top of the 10% commission they were taking from members' yearly dues to the club, which they kept demanding members pay even after the club stopped requiring its members to pay dues... not to mention the "club fundraising" that Meetup kept
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I was willing to stomach $80, but they tried to double it again this past year up to $160 or so and I bailed to Joplin.
I'm convinced the company is just 3 MBAs in a trench coat.
Strange name (Score:5, Funny)
"Bending spoons" immediately makes you think of Uri Geller. Why would you want to name yourself after a famous con man? You might as well call the company "Snake Oil, Inc."
Worse? (Score:2)
Which name is worse; Bending Spoons or The Smiling Face?
excess (Score:2)
1. 350 people for what WeTransfer do seems excessive. Even 25% of that, as in 87 people seems excessive.
2. If a small company is bought, then some departments, like accounting, legal, HR and even sales become redundant.