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Selena Gomez’s struggling mental health startup lays off nearly two-thirds of its employees

Several employees spoke to Forbes about financial issues at Wondermind, the four-year-old mental health startup co-founded by the celebrity and her mom in a report Forbes published over the weekend. Now it’s laying off most of its 15-person staff.

2024 InvisionWondermind, the mental health startup cofounded by singer and entrepreneur Selena Gomez, laid off nine people, or 60% of its 15-person staff on Monday afternoon, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. This comes two days after Forbes broke the news about financial problems at the four-year-old startup, which was founded by Gomez, her mom Mandy Teefey and newsletter entrepreneur Daniella Pierson, who left in 2023. She has appeared in 40 episodes of “Only Murders In The Building” between 2021 and 2024; she starred in the movie “Emilia Pérez,” for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe as best supporting actress this year; and she recently got engaged to Benny Blanco, with whom she just produced her seventh album.

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