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I'm quite the opposite: Twilio's revenue tripled from 2019 to today; if their headcount didn't triple to support that growth, I'd run away!
by beambot 4y ago
I'm quite the opposite: Twilio's revenue tripled from 2019 to today; if their headcount didn't triple to support that growth, I'd run away!
- Patrol8394 4y agoHow much of their revenue came in because of acquisitions like Segment? That said, sustainable growth is ok, Twilio's head count growth was "wild" to put it mild.
- shagie 4y ago(from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34777320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34777320 ) Tripling the revenue and headcount would be ok if they could make this line go up (or even stay level) https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=TWLO+profit+divided+by+number+of+employees https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=TWLO+profit+divided+by+... As it is, the number is negative and the slope is negative.
- acchow 4y agoYou should hope that a software business would scale non-linearly with employees.
- beambot 4y agoSG&A, which includes sales & marketing, grew 3.06x since 2019 -- so linearly with revenue growth, as is typical for enterprise B2B. And on the engineering front: If they're not investing substantially in R&D, then they're likely going to flame out in the coming decade. R&D expense grew 2.62x in the same timeframe.