> I didn’t know they have that many people (9000) to work for a single product. Having had a wee insight into how it worked at Rdio (obligatory: I miss Rdio!),

> I didn’t know they have that many people (9000) to work for a single product. Having had a wee insight into how it worked at Rdio (obligatory: I miss Rdio!), one big chunk of the answer is they need a literal army of lawyers. A worldwide streaming music library is a hoard of licensing liabilities for every possible country, with deals that expire, renew and change hands daily on every possible mix of business days and holiday calendars. As for the design and development headcount, I guess they dispatch teams and tasks as efficiently as Meta with their thousands of acqui-hired product people.