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I wonder what the criteria is for "startup"? GitHub jumped out to me as maybe not a startup anymore. Glitch, formally fogcreek is 20 years old... Maybe has emp
by KyleBrandt 7y ago
I wonder what the criteria is for "startup"? GitHub jumped out to me as maybe not a startup anymore.
Glitch, formally fogcreek is 20 years old... Maybe has employees about the same age as the company :-p
- itronitron 7y agoyeah, neither is Elastic which is a public $6B company
- camwoodsum 7y agoHey guys! I created the product so I can answer this one. You're right that Elastic and Github (and Stripe and Twilio) aren't startups. The list is really just the fastest-growing companies (not necessarily just startups). This is good feedback. I might clarify this in the text before the table itself. Even though these companies are big, they're growing fast and I thought it would be helpful to add them.
- travisjungroth 7y agoNot your fault, you're in the middle of using a messy term. People call Google a startup.
- tasuki 7y agoElastic is marked as "Remote First? No, but heavily remote" - I work at Elastic, and would say Elastic is very much remote-first, though our preferred term is "distributed": https://www.elastic.co/about/distributed https://www.elastic.co/about/distributed Edit: Also, we're bigger than GitLab! ;)
- camwoodsum 7y agoFixing this now! Thanks for letting me know :)
- hinkley 7y agoMaybe at this point 'startup' = 'tech company' in some people's heads.