About The Purple People Collective

The Purple People Collective is a place for laid off tech people to band together and find some work in a really crappy economy.

The Purple People Collective was started by me, Ryan Kuder, an ex-Yahoo, and Jonathan Tarud, my business partner and not an ex-Yahoo, and was built expertly by Andrés Max and Elías Orozco who rock in every conceivable way.

When I was laid off in February, one of the frustrating things was that the daily professional contact that I had with my co-workers evaporated. There was Facebook and LinkedIn and IM and Twitter, but what I really wanted was a way for us fellow ex-Yahoos to find each other and help each other find work. There were lots of referrals for freelance work, but they all happened peer to peer. If only there was a place where we could all get together and proudly say, “We got laid off, and we can help you!” it would be a hell of a lot easier for the recruiters to find us.

So when Yahoo went through it’s second round of layoffs on December 10, the Purple People Collective was born. Hopefully it can help match up some folks in need of short term work with some folks who need short term work. We know there are lots of people getting laid off these days, not just Yahoos, so it’s open to anyone who’s recently out of work.

It's also open to former Yahoos! and others who may not be actively looking, but would like to be a part of this community. To post here, you need to be available for short term gigs & projects.

Good luck, and god speed.
-Ryan