A few weeks ago, when SoundCloud let go 173 employees, the internet banded together and created a “Hire a SoundClouder” Google doc to connect companies hiring with those affected by the layoffs. Now, WeTransfer has stepped in to also help the ex-SoundCloud workers by offering each of them $10,000.
In an open letter on Medium, Damian Bradfield, the president of WeTransfer, outlines how the idea came to him while chatting with a journalist at the Tech Open Air Conference in Berlin. Though he admired the “Hire a SoundClouder” idea, another, more radical alternative occurred to him.
“What if,” said Bradfield to the journalist, “each and every one of [the ex-SoundClouders] had been offered ten thousand dollars to refrain from getting a job?...
