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by listenallyall 1187 days ago
Leave costs where they are? Inflation likely causing many of their inputs to increase. Employees tend to want raises, bonuses and stock options. Health insurance basically always goes up. Customers demanding more features/quality (i.e. faster streams, 4k) while bandwidth/server costs rising. Marketing visibility often set via competitive bidding or auctions. They already reduced what they pay to their content creators late 2022.

> I can understand layoffs when your business is running at a loss

How do you know Twitch isn't?

> This is what I don't get

No, there's more.

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> How do you know Twitch isn't?

They wrote that they're profiting, in the initial post, just not as much as they'd like to. Profit isn't loss.

> They wrote that they're profiting, in the initial post

no, they didn't