G’day G’day friends,

In 2025, Crunchbase reported there were 126,000+ tech layoffs.

Massive companies such as:

• Intel.
• Google.
• Amazon.
• Verizon.
• Microsoft.
• Salesforce.

Laid off staff thousands of staff despite reporting skyrocketing profits.

This is insane numbers.

But behind every number is a real person.

This could be someone’s daughter, uncle, mother, brother, father.

(Hell, this could even be you).

Someone with a real story.

Someone with hopes and dreams.

Someone who believed they did all the ‘right’ things.

Only to be brutally laid off via email into the worst job market.

All that talk of “being a family” only extends to next quarter’s P&L.

Or the preaching of “Loyalty” only to feel like a line on a spreadsheet.

I’m not against the 9-5 job.

But they need to be used as a stepping stone.

Your corporate job is used to build finances, skills, and a network.

I wouldn’t stay longer than 5-8 years.

And I would be building my one-person business on the side the entire time.

While 2025 feels like the death of the safe tech 9-5.

2026 is the year of the solopreneur.

We are living in a time when building your one-person has never been:

Easier, cheaper, and less risky.

If you've worked a tech job, you've ALREADY got a high value skill and everything else you need to get started.

You can turn that lay off into an opportunity to kick start solopreneurship.

​If you’re ready to start, here’s something to get you kickstarted.​

Let’s Launch Together,

Michael ‘breakdowns or breakthrough’ Lim.