Patreon Cuts 20% of Staff, Eliminating About 93 Jobs as It Embraces AI Shift
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Updated · The Verge · Jul 23
Patreon Cuts 20% of Staff, Eliminating About 93 Jobs as It Embraces AI Shift
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Jul 23
Summary
About 93 Patreon employees are being laid off, a 20% workforce cut the company disclosed in an internal memo.
CEO Jack Conte said the move was driven not by a belief that AI replaces people, but by AI's broad impact on how Patreon builds products, communicates and organizes work.
Conte had already said last month that Patreon was "100 percent embracing" AI tools internally and warned the company could be "dead in three years" if it failed to adapt.
The layoffs follow an earlier retrenchment in 2022, when Patreon cut 17% of staff and closed its Dublin and Berlin offices.