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1) Operating is not the same as building, especially if you have to figure things out. 2) Twitter reported half a billion in revenue last quarter.
by trjordan 11y ago
1) Operating is not the same as building, especially if you have to figure things out.
2) Twitter reported half a billion in revenue last quarter.
- mrweasel 11y ago>Twitter reported half a billion in revenue last quarter And yet managed to lose 136 million dollars. While revenue is interesting, it just doesn't matter if you can't turn a profit.
- draugadrotten 11y agoHow is it even possible for a company like twitter to spend a billion dollar and change in one quarter? That's enough to run a small country complete with golden bathroom for the dictator. Time to go read about their OPEX I suppose. Anyone got a link to a good write-up?
- TheBlueDot 11y agoHalf a billion but... People are expensive, office space in their 30+ offices is expensive, hundreds of thousands of servers are expensive...
- foobarian 11y agoHow in the world do they have hundreds of thousands of servers!
- ryanSrich 11y agoTwitter is notorious for being ridiculously frivolous[1]. They also pay their employees very very high wages[2], which isn't a bad thing, but I assume that doesn't scale well. 1. http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/06/technology/social/twitter-cabins/ http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/06/technology/social/twitter-ca... 2. http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Twitter-Staff-Software-Engineer-Salaries-E100569_D_KO8,31.htm http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Twitter-Staff-Software-Engin...