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800 employees?! How?!
by sofaofthedamned 10y ago
800 employees?! How?!
- tribby 10y agohow: they've raised over half a billion dollars. my own question is "why." slack is by no means a trivial business to run but 800 does seem awfully high.
- stevenwoo 10y agoIs Whatsapp a good comparison in terms of product? I remember reading the engineering team there before they got purchased was less than 50 members.
- partycoder 10y agoFinance, marketing, HR, recruiting... Slack claims to not have a sales team.
- bdavisx 10y agoIf they want to get enterprise level customers, they better think about getting one.
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- altern8tif 10y agoToo many startups go the easy route once they get significant funding – go on a hiring spree. In my opinion, per-employee metrics (ie. revenue/profit per employee) are a great way to make sure that you don't overhire [1]. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/revenue-per-employee-at-apple-facebook-google-others-2016-2 http://www.businessinsider.com/revenue-per-employee-at-apple...
- tjpnz 10y agoMakes the argument some were making for their use of Electron seem less relevant.
- untilHellbanned 10y agoMy exact thought. Good thing I Control + F'd "800" before duplicating your comment. 800 employees is especially insane for a serial entrepreneur like Stuart Butterfield who should know better. Then again, the Twitter guys including Ev Williams were serial entrepreneurs and yet the overhired too. It seems an interesting coincidence in the technology sector that viral user growth often can lead to viral hiring.