250 people now have the chance to sell their freelance services on the site

ai-pocalypse Freelance services marketplace Fiverr has told around 250 staffers that they are back on the market as it pivots to having "a modern, clean, AI-focused infrastructure from the ground up."

The company confirmed on Tuesday to The Register that it would lay off around 30 percent of its workforce. In an extended essay on X, founder and CEO Micha Kaufman said that AI was going to mean a fundamental rethink and that the 15-year-old freelance services bazaar is "going back to startup mode."

"This transformation requires a painful reset, and as we make it, we will be parting ways with approximately 250 team members across the different departments, resulting in a smaller and flatter organization," he lamented.

"We need to go back to a startup mode, with speed and agility, a flatter organizational structure, and an AI-focused infrastructure and methodology."

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