Since 2023, net startup headcount has only grown by 7,000

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What do you think will bring those hirings back?

It’s probably going to be pretty flat as founders use more and more ai and expect employees to do the same.

Slow growth in startup headcount since 2023

Think we still might be in health correction territory here.  

Far, far too many jobs created between early to growth stage in '20-'22.

Slow growth in net startup headcount since 2023

VC Returns peaked when Rates bottomed, so it is all downhill from there until a new model emerges, imo

What made it go that high in February, 2022