Kudos to Craigslist, Whatsapp, Instagram etc that managed to keep staff size low. At least until they were acquired... Only a very strong non changing manageme

Kudos to Craigslist, Whatsapp, Instagram etc that managed to keep staff size low. At least until they were acquired... Only a very strong non changing management that say no to nearly all feature changes can make that possible. 99% of companies and projects is not that. New features, new management, new customers, new priorities, leads to exponential complexity of services and staff numbers. And over-head staff such as sales, support, legal, hr, localisation, etc.