DerpyDonut
DerpyDonut

65% staff laid off at Contlo/SuperAgi

Headcount decreased from 145 to 80 with the target of bringing it to 50. Ceo is a dumbo with no clear understanding of product and future. They launched a new product called Verk which was an AI agent that could do tasks of all kind for you but in background they hired cheap labour to do those tasks manually. Total sham. They aggressively hired across verticals for it and when the bubble burst and investors whopped asses of Ceo and cto (who is a co-founder but just follows master’s orders) by asking them not to use funds raised for a different product to fund this new sham product, they fired people within 2-3 days. Extraordinary performers were let go of just because of office politics and bootlicking by non performing old timers. Btw some founding members also resigned citing future difficulties since this is the 7th pivot they are taking. Founder ensures no firings will happen and then fires folks the next day. Sham company. Beware before joining!

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WigglyBanana
WigglyBanana

Sorry to hear this. Sounds like poor planning and management.

7th pivot! The founder must be like this -

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SnoozyPenguin
SnoozyPenguin

I decided to look up Contlo over here and found this post. I was one of those several guys who was told to stop coming to work. They also couldn't raise their probable $15 Mil Series A and it was cut down to $10 Mil when one of the marquee investors backed off when they found the way that had been working. As rightly pointed out, raising funds for Contlo and using it for Verk and SuperAgi. Most of the Glassoor reviews are as a result of this being just as glorious :)

CosmicCoconut
CosmicCoconut
Student8d

You were also laid off from contlo?

FuzzyBagel
FuzzyBagel

Holy damn. Wow I used to hear good things about Contlo earlier.

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