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Patreon cuts 20 percent of its workforce
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workforce, or around 93 employees, as CEO Jack Conte cites AI-driven changes across the company.
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Patreon is cutting 20 percent of its workforce, or approximately 93 employees, according to a report from 404 Media. CEO Jack Conte announced the layoffs in a memo to employees on July 23, 2026.
Conte said the cuts were not made because Patreon believes “AI replaces humans.” Instead, he wrote that the technology has “fundamentally transformed the tech industry,” including how the company works, builds products, communicates, operates, and organizes itself.
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Patreon’s AI strategy
In an interview on Decoder last month, Conte said Patreon is “100 percent embracing” AI tools internally as it works to continue serving creators. He argued that the company must adopt the technology as a product and engineering business:
“If Patreon does not fully embrace these tools as a product and engineering company — and we are ultimately a product and engineering company — and use them to give the power back to creators, we, as a company, will be dead in three years.”
Patreon previously laid off 17 percent of its workers in 2022 and closed its offices in Dublin and Berlin.
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via The Verge
