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Apparently they were 8+ people, in 2024 team size was 6 and were hiring 2 more [0] and in 2020 they had $2m+ ARR [1].

Honestly, while I feel bad for the people who lost their jobs the news aren't exactly surprising. Overhiring is a game for VC funded OSS like bun, not usually a good idea for bootstrapped companies.

[0]: https://tailwindcss.com/blog/hiring-a-design-engineer-and-st...

[1]: https://adamwathan.me/tailwindcss-from-side-project-byproduc...

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> 2020 they had $2m+ ARR

You've got an extra "R" in there. In 2020 their only revenue from was non-recurring lifetime software purchases. Like SaaS if you had a 100% churn rate.

Very good point, and I imagine part of the issue here... everything they sell is one-time payment, more of a reason they should have been preparing for the music to stop

On his morning walk/podcast thing about the topic he said 75% of the team = 3 developers

I wonder if that includes him or not as the remaining 25% as 1 member.

No it was the 3 co-founders, a part-time person and 4 engineers. Now they are 3 engineers down.

But surely the co-founders pay themselves too. I don't understand the logic in not counting them as part of the company.

Tailwind had several times more than 2M / ARR at their peak.

I believe you, I'm just going out of the figures they have published. If they had "several times more" annual revenue, then not having a warchest for situations like this is puzzling.

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