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by brad0 869 days ago
Let's say management decide to lay off 50% of their engineering workforce.

This decreases our new loan amount to $1.5M. Revenue now needs to increase by $74,150 instead of $105,800. That's less than if we retained all our engineers, but it's still quite high.

What about something more drastic? What if we lay off 90% of the engineering workforce?

This decreases our new loan amount to $1.1M. Revenue now needs to increase by $48,830. The pour soul(s) that are left are going to be spending all their time maintaining the existing systems, they won't be able to increase revenue by over 2x what we did in 2022.