Twitter co-founder Dorsey apologizes for growing the company ‘too quickly’ in wake of mass layoffs

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey apologizes Saturday for expanding the organization “way too swiftly,” a working day soon after the corporation laid off about 50 % of its workers under new proprietor Elon Musk.

“Folks at Twitter earlier and existing are sturdy and resilient. They will often discover a way no issue how hard the moment,” Dorsey wrote in a tweet. “I know numerous are angry with me. I very own the obligation for why all people is in this situation: I grew the company dimension too promptly. I apologize for that.”

As of June 30, 2013, soon before the social media organization went general public, Twitter had somewhere around 2,000 staff, according to files filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. By the conclude of previous yr, the corporation described a lot more than 7,500 full-time personnel.

Just after Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk took possession of Twitter on Oct. 28, the business embarked on a steep reduction in its workforce. Twitter educated personnel Thursday night that it would commence laying off staff members, according to communications acquired by CNBC.

The cuts influenced a whole of 983 workers in California, its dwelling condition, in accordance to a few letters of see that the company despatched to regional authorities, which ended up obtained by CNBC.

Musk wrote in a tweet on Friday afternoon, “Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, regrettably there is no alternative when the organization is losing more than $4M/day. Anyone exited was available 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than lawfully necessary. “

Twitter’s reduction in pressure extended beyond California, and CNBC could not quickly affirm whether or not Musk’s description is correct. A reduction of $4 million for each day at the business would represent an yearly decline all around $1.5 billion.

Dorsey co-launched Twitter in 2006 alongside Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams. Dorsey held the top rated job two times throughout management variations and stepped down as CEO very last 12 months. The company’s then-main engineering officer Parag Agrawal succeeded Dorsey as CEO prior to leaving as section of Musk’s takeover.

Dorsey has due to the fact shifted his concentrate to only controlling his payments organization Block, previously recognised as Square. He has been an outspoken advocate of Musk’s takeover, creating in a tweet that “This is the proper path… I consider it with all my heart.”

—CNBC’s Lora Kolodny and Jonathan Vanian contributed to this report.