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Stitch Fix cutting jobs, founder returns as interim CEO

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Stitch Fix informed salaried workers that it plans to cut 20 percent of them from its payrolls. It also announced that Elizabeth Spaulding is leaving as company CEO and will be replaced on an interim basis by founder Katrina Lake.

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