Hey, I agree. I was very against the layoffs (I built this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24135032), and at my own company I have a very strict layoffs-are-the-absolute-worst-case-scenario rule (which I got from working at Mozilla back in 2010; we were proud to have been one of the few companies who had never done layoffs back then!)

I think Mitchell has made many bad decisions the past few years. When I saw the news, my gut reaction was to post something negative. However, having known her and known all the work she put in early, I wanted to post a counterbalance. She wasn't a great CEO (and the $$ is a very bad look), but she's done a lot of good for the community over the past 20 years.