sowmya: yes.ody to call to say, hey, can you just give me a couple of days to download some stuff? sowmya: the moment you're laid off, you have till the end of the day. paul: so what did you do? sowmya: i had a lot of exit formalities to complete. so that took most of my day. paul: and all that time you're thinking, how do i retrieve work, the work you've done for your portfolio? sowmya: right. it was driving me crazy. i had to compromise on a lot of great companies because everyone instantly wants to see work. paul: and she couldn't access any of hers. so, massive disruption in tech, massive yoffs. a harbinger of deep recession? vivek: silicon valley has burned down many times. and every time it burns down, it reinvents itself. but this time, it isn't a forest fire. it's just a hedge trimming. paul: longtime valley entrepreneur vivek wadhwa. vivek: this is nothing like the dot com boom, as the dot com bust had global consequences and it was he. it set the economy back for years to come. this is j