{"slug": "patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-workers", "title": "Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers", "summary": "Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workforce, or around 93 employees, CEO Jack Conte announced in a memo. Conte said the cuts are not because AI replaces humans but because AI has \"fundamentally transformed the tech industry, including how we work, how we build products, how we communicate, and more.\" The layoffs come as Patreon embraces AI tools internally to better serve creators.", "body_md": "# Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers\n\nBy Emma RothSource:\n\n[The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com)Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as [reported earlier by 404 Media](https://www.404media.co/patreon-lays-off-20-percent-of-its-workforce/). In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte\n\n[writes that the company](https://www.patreon.com/jackconte/posts/painful-update-164628951)isn't making these changes \"because we believe AI replaces humans,\" but says AI has \"fundamentally transformed the tech industry, including how we work, how we build products, how we communicate, and more.\"\n\nThat shift has changed \"how we operate and organize,\" Conte writes.\n\nDuring [an interview on Decoder, last month](https://www.theverge.com/podcast/952607/patreon-ceo-jack-conte), Conte laid out his stance on AI, saying that the company is \"100 percent embracing\" AI tools internally to continue serving creators:\n\nIf Patreon doe …\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-workers", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-workers-n3ls", "published_at": "2026-07-23 18:20:30+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 18:37:00.829926+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Patreon", "Jack Conte", "404 Media", "The Verge"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-workers", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-workers.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-workers.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/patreon-is-laying-off-20-percent-of-workers.jsonld"}}