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Google revenue: 89b in 2016 Facebook revenue: 28b in 2016 More than 30k of Google's 80k employees on LinkedIn have titles including either "Sales" or "Account

Google revenue: 89b in 2016 Facebook revenue: 28b in 2016 More than 30k of Google's 80k employees on LinkedIn have titles including either "Sales" or "Account" (Account Executive, Account Manager, etc.). For Facebook it's 9k out of 26k. Facebook and google both sell user attention to advertisers. Exxon deploys vast engineering resources to extract and collect oil, but it would be weird to say that because they don't receive payment from their wells and refineries that they don't make sales

goialoq 9y ago
Yes, ad sales finance the products. But most of the products are not sold. A product/content creator doesn't need to do sales, if they are willing sign up for whatever the ad business is offering ($X CPI, user activity data, etc). Only one side of a transaction needs to sell. The other can simply choose to accept an offer.