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I'm working for a company (hesitant to call it a startup) that has ~15 people on engineering, and it's pretty successful in it's space. It's been around for a d

I'm working for a company (hesitant to call it a startup) that has ~15 people on engineering, and it's pretty successful in it's space. It's been around for a decade and I think we have a lot more features than what I would assume Meetup has (we have to, because we're dealing with customers who have individual workflows). I'm not saying 5 people can run Meetup, but I wouldn't expect it to require the 270 employees that Google lists.

wolco 7y ago
5 people can run meetup, but that's not the business or your product with better features would be bigger than meetup. Most money goes to sales, business, strategy. Growing your company into meetup would take hundreds of employees endless sales calls, conferences, golfing dates, money raising, competitor spying, timing/luck and most importantly closers. Then you need people to manage, organize them, spy of them, babysit them and clean up after them. Nevermind the interns.. if they are paided.
- mattmanser 7y ago
  It didn't, it didn't have those numbers when it got big. It, like so many other companies in the networking space, were in the right place at the right time. And seem to many of us to have grown in proportion to the money thrown at them, rather than the actual operational need. There are examples of companies that needed to do that, Groupon, etc., but that's because they had to actually do sales.