> he fired a huge number of the staff and the site is still running, so how was that assumption not proven correct ? Why would you expect the website to stop r

> he fired a huge number of the staff and the site is still running, so how was that assumption not proven correct ? Why would you expect the website to stop running though? Keeping a site running with a smaller crew is easy amd baked in - all organizations with >10 engineers do this frequently, over the holidays or Lunar New year. What's harder is building new features at the same pace and quality as a larger engineering team.