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I have calculated salary costs alone to be 30m a month at least. Could also be up to 80m, though, I have used the most conservative calculation I could reasonab

I have calculated salary costs alone to be 30m a month at least. Could also be up to 80m, though, I have used the most conservative calculation I could reasonably come up with. Then comes office infrastructure, if any and cloud assets.

vineyardmike 4y ago
They publicly disclose this info ;) They have >4k employees. Assuming they make US minimum wage, they would cost almost 240,000,000/yr. It’s almost certainly MUCH higher. They spend $550b a quarter on R/D. That’s likely mostly salary. https://s27.q4cdn.com/397450999/files/doc_financials/2022/q3/Q32022-Shareholder-Letter.pdf https://s27.q4cdn.com/397450999/files/doc_financials/2022/q3...
- taspeotis 4y ago
  > They spend $550b a quarter on R/D. That’s likely mostly salary. What does b stand for again…
  - vineyardmike 4y ago
    Billion?
    - taspeotis 4y ago
      And how many quarters in a year? 550 billion * 4 quarters = 2.2 trillion dollars in R&D each year...