San Francisco-Based Delivery Giant DoorDash Just Laid Off More Than 1,000 Employees | Eater SF

"I read that one of San Francisco’s homegrown titans in the food-tech sector — DoorDash — laid off about 1,250 employees, roughly 6 percent of its workforce, after CEO Tony Xu posted on the company’s internal blog that the pandemic-incited growth spurt ran up against a weak economy; “This hard reality ultimately led me to make this painful decision to reduce our team size,” Xu wrote. A DoorDash representative told SFGATE the company had about 20,000 workers before the layoffs, while SEC filings show the company began 2022 with about 8,600 workers. This was reported as the first major round of layoffs for food delivery companies in 2022, occurring amid broader tech downsizing at firms such as Twitter and Meta." - Paolo Bicchieri