Startup layoffs after a huge funding round and a public 'we're crushing it' post — cold reality of business, or a trust problem the whole industry needs to fix?

Options

• Cold reality. Plans change, and freezing hiring or cutting costs isn't a moral failure.
• Trust problem. If you're publicly bragging while quietly planning cuts, that's dishonest.
• The layoffs aren't the issue, how they're communicated to the team is.
• This happens so often now that nobody should be surprised by it anymore.