Thinkific CEO Greg Smith reflects on layoffs, the year ahead in BC Tech call

The edtech exec spoke honestly about the challenges and triumphs during COVID and beyond.

One can imagine that, weeks ago when BC Tech booked Greg Smith to speak at its monthly ScaleUp roundtable, that it wasn’t envisioning the talk shifting toward layoffs. Last week, Thinkific CEO Smith announced that the company was laying off 100 people, and it made for something of an elephant in the room. 

To his credit, Smith addressed it with minimal p…