Monday.com’s co-CEOs Roy Mann and Eran Zinman appear to be executing that playbook with remarkable precision. The Israeli work management software company laid off roughly 620 to 630 employees on July 22, representing about 20% of its global workforce. Days later, a compensation proposal surfaced that would nearly double the co-CEOs’ annual pay to between $14 million and $14.6 million each by 2029, up from their current packages of roughly $7 million to $7.3 million. The numbers behind the restructuringMonday.com framed the layoffs as a strategic pivot toward becoming an “AI Work Platform” built around collaboration between AI agents and human workers. The compensation proposalThe proposed pay packages for Mann and Zinman are structured primarily around equity awards, with a 60/40 split between performance-based and time-based vesting.