{"id":100952,"date":"2026-04-01T06:35:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/popular-vc-marc-andreessen-says-that-companies-using-ai-as-excuse-for-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:35:46","slug":"popular-vc-marc-andreessen-says-that-companies-using-ai-as-excuse-for-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/popular-vc-marc-andreessen-says-that-companies-using-ai-as-excuse-for-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular VC Marc Andreessen says that companies using AI as excuse for layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen argues that AI is not the cause of mass layoffs, calling it a &#8220;silver bullet excuse.&#8221; He asserts that higher interest rates and overstaffing during the COVID-19 pandemic are the true drivers of workforce reductions. Andreessen believes companies are using AI as a convenient narrative to mask past mismanagement and bloated payrolls.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen argues that AI is not the cause of mass layoffs, calling it a &#8220;silver bullet excuse.&#8221; He asserts that higher interest rates and overstaffing during the COVID-19 pandemic are the true drivers of workforce reductions. Andreessen believes companies are using AI as a convenient narrative to mask past mismanagement and bloated&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/popular-vc-marc-andreessen-says-that-companies-using-ai-as-excuse-for-layoffs\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Popular VC Marc Andreessen says that companies using AI as excuse for layoffs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":100953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}