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Because they’re paying 1000 engineers to shoot for the moon, to justify the next valuation. In a fancy office. To service their order book, they just need a sk
by erikpukinskis 7y ago
Because they’re paying 1000 engineers to shoot for the moon, to justify the next valuation. In a fancy office.
To service their order book, they just need a skeleton crew. And the order book should be the bottom line for the bulk of investors.
- icedchai 7y agoIt looks like sales and marketing is costing more than engineering.
- BubRoss 7y agoYou say that, but Twitter has many thousands of employees. They could be much more profitable if they weren't paying enormous amounts of money (for what end I have no idea, the site seems to always be getting less reliable and more bloated).
- chrisco255 7y ago1000 employees generating close to $1 billion in revenue. That's why software devs make the big bucks: economies of scale.
- kurthr 7y agoPfftht... only a million $ in revenue per employee? That's hardware level ROI. Software can be a lot more!
- track_me_now 7y agovalve @ $2M per employee was always considered about the best you can do, long term, at scale.