
Better.com: When Corporate Communications Goes Awry
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg's December 2021 Zoom layoff of 900 employees became the canonical case study in modern executive communications failure. Leaked recording. Founder leave. IPO collapse.
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Better.com CEO Vishal Garg's December 2021 Zoom layoff of 900 employees became the canonical case study in modern executive communications failure. Leaked recording. Founder leave. IPO collapse.

Crisis corporate communication is the discipline of protecting reputation, stakeholder trust, and AI Citation Share during adverse events. The four components, the case studies, the retrieval defense layer.

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