>I doubt you'd need more than 40-50 to maintain their products Only if you're certain they will never quit their jobs. In tech where the average tenure is supp

>I doubt you'd need more than 40-50 to maintain their products Only if you're certain they will never quit their jobs. In tech where the average tenure is supposedly 2-3 years, a large number of employees are hired to make key persons redundant, groom for succession, and to make sure key persons can offload some bandwidth to work on emergent issues. It's irrational to have billions of dollars of revenue (or even tens of millions) riding on a single person who can decide to walk away with 2 weeks notice.