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If you can serve 1K users with 10 employees, you can probably serve 1M users with 10k employees.
by xuhu 4y ago
If you can serve 1K users with 10 employees, you can probably serve 1M users with 10k employees.
- beckingz 4y agoRemember that global productivity usually does not scale with headcount! Each employee adds some overhead, which requires more employees... which requires more employees.
- Mavvie 4y agoSounds like the rocket equation! Perhaps big companies are rocket science?
- kaba0 4y agoAnd you can birth one baby in 3 months by 3 women, right? To add something useful as well besides snark, first of all, there are hard physical limits, which are sometimes well within context (you really shouldn’t try to outcompete light speed for example, relevant in some high-freq trading, infrastructure projects). Then you can try to increase headcount to any number, you won’t produce for example a better compiler. There are simply jobs that are more “serial” - the only way to win at those is to try to employ the very best of the field in a small team.
- xuhu 4y agoNo, just 3 babies in 9 months.
- kaba0 4y agoYou can deliver DVDs to netflix subscribers as well to achieve a much bigger throughput, but I doubt they would be as popular as they are right now :D
- beckingz 4y agoSneakernet! “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.“ -Andrew Tannenbaum
- bmurphy1976 4y agoThat's too simplistic. What about the doctors and medical facilities and other supporting infrastructure? What about the baby food and medicine and clothing and supplies and what about the people to take care of the children? You think you can just keep throwing more women at a hospital having babies to infinity and not have any problems?
- Dylan16807 4y agoThere's a limit on those things, but it might as well be infinity when you're trying to have 1 baby or 3 babies or 100 babies. 1M users and 10k employees is not in the range where you have crushingly impactful logistics.
- sllabres 4y agoThat won't help your customer expecting their 'baby' after three month due to the increased mother-workforce ;)
- Dylan16807 4y agoBut the goal wasn't better or faster. It was giving more customers the same service. You're talking about a completely different problem.