So many variables, but it's easy to spend $260M in 18 months at a decently sized company. If they have 1200 employees, that's about $12k per employee per month.

So many variables, but it's easy to spend $260M in 18 months at a decently sized company. If they have 1200 employees, that's about $12k per employee per month. So you could easily spend that much just on salary + benefits for software developers in Seattle.