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Even if this is off by two orders of magnitude and it's only 100,000 companies that need distributed compute, that means that almost all companies just need a s
by beckingz 4y ago
Even if this is off by two orders of magnitude and it's only 100,000 companies that need distributed compute, that means that almost all companies just need a single large computer.
Looking at the distribution of companies by employee count and assuming that data scales with employee count (dangerous assumption, but probably true enough on average), that means that companies don't need distributed compute until they get several hundred employees. [0]
[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/487741/number-of-firms-in-the-us-by-employment-size/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/487741/number-of-firms-i...