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> I remember a comparison on HN about how booking.com is O(50) people and Airbnb is O(2000) total Does anyone have a link to this?
by irgolic 3y ago
> I remember a comparison on HN about how booking.com is O(50) people and Airbnb is O(2000) total
Does anyone have a link to this?
- smueller1234 3y agoThat's nonsense. Booking.com with it's subsidiaries was about 18000 or so people when I left in 2017. About 1800 of that were in engineering The vast majority of staff were working either on the supply or customer service side.
- selcuka 3y agoI don't know about booking.com, but when Facebook acquired Instagram for $1B they only had 13 employees. WhatsApp had 55 employees when they were bought (again by Facebook) for $19B.
- jamil7 3y agoCrunchbase says it's closer to 10000.
- em500 3y agoAccording to Google Finance: BKNG: Employees: 23,100, Revenue(2022): 17.1B, Net Income(2022): 3.1B ABNB: Employees: 6,811, Revenue(2022): 8.4B, Net Income(2022): 1.9B https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BKNG:NASDAQ https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BKNG:NASDAQ https://www.google.com/finance/quote/ABNB:NASDAQ https://www.google.com/finance/quote/ABNB:NASDAQ