{"id":342,"kind":"story","title":"Laid Off 1,100 Employees in the Quarter of Record Performance","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/cloudflare-says-ai-made-1100-jobs-obsolete-even-as-revenue-hit-a-record-high/","host":"techcrunch.com","by":"mrlatte","score":1,"comments":0,"editorial_comments":0,"time":"2026-05-09T09:00:00.000Z","origin":"archive","language":{"source":"ko","reading":"en","translated":true},"summary":["Cloudflare laid off 1,100 employees on the very day it announced record quarterly revenue.","CEO Matthew Prince explained it was not about cost-cutting but a shift to an operating model fitting the era of agentic AI, with internal AI usage rising 600% in three months.","The layoffs targeted support functions like HR, finance, and marketing.","It is easy to miss that the more back-office is eliminated, the more precious field knowledge that recognizes exceptions becomes."],"discussion":"https://startupxo.com/en/342/","markdown":"https://startupxo.com/en/342.md","api":"https://startupxo.com/api/v1/item.json?id=342&lang=en","text":null,"edited":null,"sources":[],"thread":[]}