‘Come again house’: Dream11 founder tells laid off Indian techies within the US

Harsh Jain, Co-founder and CEO of Dream11, considered one of India’s uncommon worthwhile unicorns, has made a clarion name for US-based Indian techies to return house amidst mass layoffs at main corporations within the Silicon Valley.

“With all of the 2022 tech layoffs within the US, please unfold the phrase to remind Indians to come back again house (particularly these with visa points) to assist Indian Tech notice our hyper-growth potential within the subsequent decade,” Jain wrote in a LinkedIn publish on Monday. 

Crunchbase estimates recommend that over 52,000 techies have been laid off by US corporations in 2022 up to now, in what has been an financial massacre within the nation. Mass firings have occurred at Twitter, Stripe, Salesforce, Lyft, Spotify, Peloton, Netflix, Robinhood, Instacart, Udacity, Reserving.com, Zillow, Loom, Past Meat, and several other others.

What induced the funding crunch and ensuing layoffs?

Crunchbase defined, “The general public markets have been hit onerous in 2022, and that’s trickled all the way down to the non-public markets. Inflation considerations, rising rates of interest, and geopolitical points have all contributed to a roller-coaster inventory market. Begin-ups — particularly those who benefited from a pandemic growth that’s beginning to cool — are feeling the strain too. Valuations, notably on the late stage, have began to dip, and start-ups say it’s way more tough to boost new funding on this setting.”

Although a number of Indian start-ups, particularly in edtech, have needed to resort to mass layoffs this yr, Mumbai-based Dream Sports activities Group, at present valued at $8 billion, continues to be worthwhile, with a cumulative consumer base of over 150 million throughout its group corporations. These embrace Dream11, Rario, FanCode, DreamPay, DreamSetGo, and extra. 

Dream11 launched on the Google Play Retailer on October 9 after Google allowed the official itemizing of real-money gaming apps. By November 2, it climbed to the highest of the gaming charts on the Play Retailer.

Jain added in his publish, “We now have 10 kickass portfolio corporations in Fantasy Sports activities, NFTs, Sports activities OTT, FinTech, Sports activities Experiences and so on which might be continuously on the lookout for nice expertise, particularly with management expertise in Design, Product & Tech. In the event you or somebody you realize matches the above, be happy to succeed in out to us.”

He additionally shared an electronic mail id (indiareturns@dreamsports.group) for laid off Indian techies within the US to succeed in out to.