> Ayyanger tells TechCrunch the layoffs were not due to economic factors.<p>> “It wasn’t for financial or company performance reasons,” he said. “Traffic has never been higher and we’re in a great place, financially. It was for strategic reasons.”<p><i>such as my personal bank account, continuing to emulate big tech like Twitter in my hopes to be considered like them, and finding other ‘deep cuts’ to be arbitrary: why 10% or rounds of 20% when you can do 60%</i>