> Does spotify need 20x more employees than Valve/STEAM? I don't know. Maybe? Nowhere it says Spotify have 10k employees in IT/Engineering. Perhaps a large po

> Does spotify need 20x more employees than Valve/STEAM? I don't know. Maybe? Nowhere it says Spotify have 10k employees in IT/Engineering. Perhaps a large portion is in Legal or Compliance. Dealing with regulations around music distribution on a global scale looks pretty complicated to me. Also, Spotify does streaming, which is a fundamentally different - and more complex -business than e-commerce of digital goods (which is Valve's business model). Ultimately, my point still stands. Spotify has competitors. If they are so bloated, nothing should stop a leaner competitor to eat their lunch. > How's twitter working with 80% less employees? I didn't use Twitter before Musk took over, and I don't use now. So it's difficult for me to compare their two incarnations. I'll just mention that on a recent interview Musk said (in very colorful language) that the current advertiser boycott may kill the company. So my guess is that Twitter is not doing very well with only 20% of the workforce.