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What founders can learn from Anjuna’s layoffs and recovery

1 week ago

In 2021, Anjuna Security was growing fast, hiring aggressively, and chasing a market that seemed limitless. By the end of that year, the venture-backed cybersecurity company had scaled to around 75 employees, building out sales, customer success, and support teams in anticipation of continued hypergrowth. Then 2022 hit.

Maggie Nye, Isabelle Johannessen

Sierra’s Bret Taylor says the era of clicking buttons is over

1 week ago

Last month, Sierra launched Ghostwriter, an agent designed to build other agents. With this “agent as a service” tool, the startup intends to replace traditional click-based web applications with natural language. Users simply describe what they need, prompting Ghostwriter to autonomously create and deploy a specialized agent to execute the task.

Marina Temkin

Final 2 days to save up to $500 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket

1 week ago

Ticket discounts of up to $500 will end tomorrow, April 10, at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 go up again. Miss this, and you’ll be paying more for the same access to one of the most anticipated tech events of the year. Register now to lock in these savings.

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