One e-commerce startup says 15% of the 65 workers it hired in the past year had been laid off by Meta, Tesla, Amazon.com, Google and other tech giants

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Scott Ruffin, Pandion Pro’s founder and chief executive, holding the camera for a selfie with the startup’s team.



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Startups are recruiting a growing number of laid-off software developers, data scientists and engineers, luring them away from larger employers—and bigger paychecks—with a chance to build software capabilities from the ground up, tech recruiters and investors say. 

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