Garg Fired But Wants Back | Oakland News

Oakland News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 17, 2026 · 1m

Vishal Garg, the controversial CEO who famously laid off 900 employees on a Zoom call, claims he was fired from his own company, Better, just as it was poised for a comeback. Once valued at $8 billion, Better now trades at just $300 million — but Garg says he turned things around with AI-driven mortgage processing that doubled productivity and attracted big-name partners like Intuit and Coinbase. Despite a rocky past marked by lawsuits and a failed SPAC merger, he insists the company was close to profitability. He blames the abrupt ousting — orchestrated by a new interim CEO who joined the…