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"San Francisco's Twitter… has more than 400 employees and plans to grow to 3,000 employees by July 2013." Wow. Planned staff increases: Google: 25% YouTub
by keane 16y ago
"San Francisco's Twitter… has more than 400 employees and plans to grow to 3,000 employees by July 2013."
Wow. Planned staff increases:
Google: 25%
YouTube: 30%
Facebook: 50%
Twitter: 650% (over 2 years)
That is amazing. I am very curious what organization and methods Twitter has planned to manage scaling up like that.
- neutronicus 16y agoI don't know, but I think they're desperate for some data mining know how so they can do better targeted advertising. I think it's do or die for them.
- whiletruefork 16y agoAlso the growth is not necessarily all in engineering. For example, I think Twitter is going to be needing a sales team to help push any pending ad products.
- fizx 16y agoI hear Facebook has internal guidelines that say they can't grow by more than 60% y/y.
- gwern 16y agoIn _Founders at Work_, McKinsey's consultants are quoted as recommending growth be no greater than 25% because past that, the corporate culture is lost.