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I'd say it is true for most companies. But companies hire people not just for keep the current business going. A matter of fact, having fewer people may be bene
by powerapple 4y ago
I'd say it is true for most companies. But companies hire people not just for keep the current business going. A matter of fact, having fewer people may be beneficial if you want to stay in current business as it is. Companies, especially growth companies, hire people to speculate the next big thing. One of the employee is going to do something great, and expand the business.
- chii 4y ago> One of the employee is going to do something great, and expand the business. employees that would do this is unlikely to remain at the company to actually do this. Existing corporate culture or management friction will very quickly force out such an engineer, or make such an engineer ineffective at producing such innovations.
- powerapple 4y agoTake google for example, from search to gmail, from gmail to Adwords, Adsense. Another example is Tencent, from social network to a mail client, then WeChat, also expanded to games. QQ which is the original social network Tencent was built on, stayed almost the same with or worse with 100x head-counts. It is always a rare event, but when it happens, it is a 1000x win for a company. It is something worth betting on.