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There are several arguments for why companies need so many employees, but I don't buy any of them. Scale carries with it complexity, but only so far. WhatsApp h
by ryanSrich 6y ago
There are several arguments for why companies need so many employees, but I don't buy any of them. Scale carries with it complexity, but only so far. WhatsApp had < 100 employees when it was bought for $19bn, with hundreds of millions of users. It doesn't get much bigger than that. Sure, Uber is more complex than a chat app, but 200x more complex? I don't think so.
- manquer 6y agoUber is not tech company. They have some tech sure, but primarily they are a transportation company. They act like a tech company to justify the insane valuation. Your question is like to asking why ups needs 480,000 employees when whatsapp needs 100 for similar number of users.
- kyawzazaw 6y agoeven a few things like Country specific payment, fraud detection, routing, identity verification, price calculation make it way way complex don't you think?
- ryanSrich 6y agoIf you build all of those functions in house, then yes. But I don’t see why you’d do that.