[andy_ppp]

I think it's difficult to say; my guess is endless layoffs and a slow gradual slide into irrelevancy like Yahoo! - no-one is really interested who is young at arguing with strangers online.

Do we know of any companies in tech (apart from Apple) who got big, stopped growing and managed to turn it around? Will it be an amazing purchase that saves them (like Apple did)?

[thebiglebrewski]

Yeah! But...how hard is it to cut it down to real bare-bones staff and still somehow manage to have $120M in revenue and way less costs? Or is it mostly server and processing costs from how real-time their platform is?

[andy_ppp]

"But...how hard is it to cut it down to real bare-bones staff"

I'm sure you'd lay off the right people but it's much much more difficult than you think because everyone appears to be doing stuff. Let's say 3/4 people need to go - reviewing that individually is a nightmare for morale and very time consuming.

It also never seems to happen - instead companies take the easier road and keep doing a small minimal amount of layoffs because the big one is almost impossible and might lead to whole pieces of the site stopping working.

[smileysteve]

Even if you layoff the right people, morale of the others is going to suffer and you're likely to lose 10%+ of them too.

[nolok]

While it is probably the sanest objective in terms of "let's be real and honest about it", 120M or even ten time that is not going to cut it with their current situation as a tech unicorn getting to the end of their ride and trying to stop their valuation from melting.

For reference, They were still valued in the 30+ billions range mid-2015, and now barely hold above 10B.