Laid-off product teams – why not build something together?
With the Amazon layoffs, a lot of strong PMs, designers, and engineers are suddenly free (unless you are on visa). Instead of job hunting alone, why not form small teams to build and launch samething?
Probably because those are completely different skill sets from raising capital, finding product market fit, and launching a new product as a startup without megacorp capital and marketing behind you.
I left my company to build and launch. It is hard to find people who can actually work through the mess of an initial product and finding product market fit.
I think it's a partially mentality and a skillset mismatch between corporate and start ups
I'm not laid-off and currently in big tech, but I come from a scrappy start-up background. Let me tell you, I hate big tech and I know I'm just doing it for the money. Would be happy to build something as a side hustle.