Better.com CEO apologizes for firing 900 workers via Zoom

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg is apologizing for having fired 900 workers at the mortgage company earlier this month in a video call, saying he "blundered."

Garg has faced a backlash on social media after video leaked of his December 1 firing of 9% of the company's workers. The company had asked the employees to participate in a Zoom call, during which he informed the attendees that they were dismissed effective immediately.

In the video, Garg sits alone at a white table, dressed in business-casual slacks, shirt and a blue vest, and confides that he has previously had to fire people, saying that he had cried. "This time I hope to be stronger," he told the terminated workers.