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"Chrome has probably invested > 1 billion dollars into their codebase at this point. Certainly >100million into security." Let's conservatively say Google pays
by sciurus 8y ago
"Chrome has probably invested > 1 billion dollars into their codebase at this point. Certainly >100million into security."
Let's conservatively say Google pays 1,000 developers to work on Chrome, and on average those developers cost Google $300k each. That's $300 million a year just in payroll. Google has invested far more than a billion in Chrome by this point.
- SamBam 8y agoI'm amazed. Are there really, "conservatively," 1000 developers working on Chrome full-time, for years? That seems incredibly high to me, but maybe I just don't realize what it takes to build an app like Chrome.
- krageon 8y agoAs an estimate I think we can safely say it's not conservative. Especially if this is actually developers (ie straight up coders) and not also all of their supporting personnel.
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