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Amperity: Layoffs
Seattle-based customer data startup Amperity conducted layoffs this week citing AI-driven transformation of operations. Co-founders Derek Slager and Kabir Shahani recently took over as co-CEOs replacing Tony Alika Owens. Company remains at 200+ employees globally but is restructuring team composition.
Source: GeekWire
The leadership read
Reductions rarely fall evenly, and the read is in the pattern. For Amperity in Artificial Intelligence, cuts like this tend to protect — and sometimes deepen — leadership where the company is betting, while thinning the rest. Across Americas, watch which functions keep or add leadership; that is the strategy stated plainly.
Market context: Backdrop: a 105.8 (Hot) Talent Market Index (down 2.3 on the month) with Americas activity rising (+2.4pts).
Amperity: 4 signals in the last 90 days — above the Artificial Intelligence median of 1 across 84 tracked companies; 0.3% of MitchelLake's Asia signal flow; 4 tracked across 58 days.
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