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Layoffs at Linden Lab

Scott Jennings

Scott Jennings

Jun 9, 2010

30% of the Second Life developer isn’t there any more.

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Linden Lab’s press release states that these layoffs were done in order to develop a new web-based social-network-friendly client for Second Life. How letting a third of your staff go helps spur new product development is left as an exercise for the curious reader.

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