In this economy, how big do you suppose is big enough?

From American public media, this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Rizdole.

It is Wednesday today, the 9th of November.

It is always to have you along.

So while the Wednesday morning quarterback, and I guess it's Wednesday late afternoon

quarterback and by now, right?

Of yesterday's elections continues, we are going to stand our lane, trying to make

sense of where this economy might be going.

And we're going to do that today with a letter that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Metta,

Ney Facebook, of course, sent to the 87,000 people who work for him today.

11,000 jobs is the bottom line.

They're going about 13% of the company.

Mark said he had guessed wrong that the big growth boom metasaw in the pandemic was going

to continue.

Obviously, it hasn't, thus Zuckerberg being wrong.

And a whole slew of other tech companies that have laid people off of late have also said

that they have grown too fast.

And that in turn, honestly made me think of interview I did about six or eight years

ago with Ed Bastion, who was then the brand new CEO of Delta Airlines.

And a question I asked him about whether he thought he just had to keep on growing the

company.

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