Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu on Airtable layoffs: We refused to do this, ‘we will see in 2030’

Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has reacted to a recent layoffs at SaaS rival Airtable, saying that his company has deliberately chosen not to reduce its workforce even as artificial intelligence improves productivity and increases pressure on operating costs. The comments made by Vembu came after Federico Simionato of Bending Spoons, the company that owns Airtable, announced that a large portion of Airtable's workforce was being laid off as part of a strategy focused on smaller, more efficient teams. In a post shared on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), Simionato said that the layoffs were "not a reflection" of employees' performance but rather a result of the company's belief that "small teams ship more and better."