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> Small company gives away software for free. A company employing ~1000 people, with $500m+ revenue, is not a small company. It's not even mid-sized. This is a
by senko 6y ago
> Small company gives away software for free.
A company employing ~1000 people, with $500m+ revenue, is not a small company. It's not even mid-sized. This is a large multinational, only seeming small when compared with FAANG.
- chii 6y agorevenue isn't a good measure of business size. a $500m revenue might translate to very low "profit". Most size measurements will use owned asset value (or market cap, which is a very rough guesstimate of the net present value of all future profit of the company) as a measure, as it is more directly comparable between different businesses. Mozilla, is at best, a small-cap software company. Calling them mid-sized is probably not wrong either, but would be closer to being wrong than right imho.
- octodog 6y agoYou are missing the point. They are smaller than the big tech companies but they are not objectively small. In my country a company is generally deemed to be large if it employs more than 500 people, which is easily surpassed here.
- luckylion 6y ago> a $500m revenue might translate to very low "profit" 2017 they had a net income of ~$90m.
- marvin 6y agoThere is a definition in certain stock market indexes of a "small cap company" that actually means "big company". Mozilla is one of those.
- Rastonbury 6y agoYou don't businesses worth single digit millions listing, its small cap in the realm of public markets