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>Medium currently had a full fledged Sales, Support, HR and even a big ass operations dept. And 2 or 3 offices across United States. Their operations & other bu
by SerLava 10y ago
>Medium currently had a full fledged Sales, Support, HR and even a big ass operations dept. And 2 or 3 offices across United States. Their operations & other business depts were quite big in head count, even rivaling local oracle offices
Holy shit, sorry if I'm coming in to this discussion late and empty handed but isn't Medium basically a fucking blog?
- stevula 10y agoIt's really a blogging platform. I can see why they would need a large sales and customer support department. Whether it was too big, I have no idea.
- ProAm 10y agoIt's way to big. This company could be run successfully with ~30-40 people.
- untog 10y agoIt's a publishing platform, which sold itself to some smaller publications for use as their public facing site (like The Awl). It intended to make money through advertising. So sales and support is hardly out of the question. But at the size it grew to? No.
- LoSboccacc 10y agoit's exactly that, an easier wordpress as a service with a cool, officially sounding domain name and one fixed theme better than competitors of the time but fading out of fashion fast.