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Shares of Better whose CEO fired 900 workers on a Zoom call — slumped 93% on their first day of trade
Shares in Better Home & Finance tumbled 93% in their first day of trading after combining with a SP…
Huileng Tan
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A wave of layoffs is sweeping the US. Here are firms that have announced cuts so far, from Compass to Coinbase.
Peloton has already laid off thousands of employees this year. Online car dealer Carvana slashed 12…
Avery Hartmans
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A wave of layoffs is sweeping the US. Here are firms that have announced cuts so far, from Peloton to Wells Fargo.
The reason, broadly, is twofold: Business growth is slowing, while labor costs are increasing. The …
Ben Gilbert
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Better.com is reportedly set to lay off 4,000 more workers this week
The online mortgage startup is reportedly planning to fire about 4,000 workers — half its rem…
Gabrielle Bienasz
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Better.com is losing more executives as another redundancy round looms nearly 3 months after its mass layoff
Sources told TechCrunch that there are further redundancies planned in March, which could affect 40…
Sam Tabahriti
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Better.com's CEO is back after firing 900 people on Zoom — and so are some employees' fears of being next
"No matter how much those you trust are reassuring you that you're safe and performing well, it doe…
Fortesa Latifi
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Vishal Garg is stepping back into his role as CEO of Better one month after firing 900 employees over Zoom
Garg spent his time off reflecting on his leadership, reconnecting with company values and working …
Huileng Tan
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Better CEO Vishal Garg wanted to give laid-off employees only one week of severance pay
A source told Insider Garg only increased it because he feared violating a law requiring 60 days' n…
Dominick Reuter,Alex Nicoll
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I work at Better.com. 900 of my coworkers got laid off on Zoom — and those of us who didn't are terrified.
"Since the layoffs, everyone has been on edge," a Better.com employee told Insider. "We're all look…
Fortesa Latifi
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I'm one of 900 employees Better.com fired in a surprise 3-minute Zoom. Telling my kids was the hardest part.
"My wife and I had agreed not to tell our five kids about the layoff yet," a former Better.com empl…
Fortesa Latifi
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Microsoft and Robinhood are among the companies lining up to recruit fired Better.com employees: '900 people on the market ... it's a dream'
One of the Better.com employees fired in a now-infamous Zoom call is helping organize a private job…
Hannah Towey,Grace Dean
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A Fox News host described fired Better.com workers as 'snowflakes' who should 'learn work ethic' and are 'probably' millennials and Gen Z
Emily Compagno, co-host of Fox News' "Outnumbered" talk show, said she "loved" that Better.com CEO …
Zahra Tayeb
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Former Better.com staff describe their shock and disbelief after being abruptly fired on Zoom
Some former Better.com employees said the company cut off their work devices before they were fired…
Grace Dean
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A fired Better.com employee's work email and messaging were cut off so fast after the Zoom mass firing he had to quiz ex-colleagues via Facebook
Christian Chapman told CNN that, after the three-minute call, he started messaging colleagues askin…
Grace Dean
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Better.com CEO accused hundreds of the 900 people he laid off on Zoom of 'stealing' by working only 2 hours daily
"They were stealing from you and stealing from our customers who pay the bills that pay our bills,"…
Hannah Towey
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Better.com's CEO is 'taking time off effective immediately' after firing 900 employees on Zoom
An internal memo seen by Insider says Better.com has engaged an independent third party to "do a le…
Kate Duffy,Alex Nicoll
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American Express is quietly targeting select cardholders with home-loan offers from mortgage rivals Quicken and Better.com
Some customers were targeted with offers tied to Quicken, which has grown into the largest non-bank…
Alex Morrell
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Digital mortgage start-up Better.com is now worth $550 million following a new investment from Ally Bank
"A lot of the banks have been getting out of the mortgage industry, and that's great," said Garg, w…
Alex Morrell
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Goldman Sachs and Kleiner Perkins-backed mortgage startup Better.com is eyeing an IPO in two to three years - just days after closing a $160 million Series C round
Better, a digital platform that strips away fees and wait times from the mortgage process, said Mon…
Alex Morrell
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The CEO best known for firing 900 staff on a Zoom call now says he's 'worked really, really hard' to be 'more empathetic' and to treat people with 'kindness'
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg told TechCrunch he's realized that he needs his staff to "feel delight" …