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When doubling the number of employees can triple your revenue, you do it. Keeping a website running with high uptime is not the goal. Maximizing revenue and pr
by jmalicki 8mo ago
When doubling the number of employees can triple your revenue, you do it.
Keeping a website running with high uptime is not the goal. Maximizing revenue and profit is. The extra people aren't waste, they're what drive the incremental imperceptible changes that make these companies profitable.
- 0x3f 8mo agoThis seems like a just-so story.
- jmalicki 8mo agoYou can see it happen in reverse with X/Twitter. Did reducing waste affect the user experience or uptime of Twitter? Not really. But advertising revenues plummeted, because those extra employees were mostly not about the user experience or keeping the website up, they were about servicing the advertisers that brought the company revenue.
- 0x3f 8mo agoI thought advertising revenues plummeted mostly for content/optics/PR reasons, not ad-buyer-facing feature reasons.
- jmalicki 8mo agoContent moderation was an ad-buyer-facing feature. I really see no evidence Musk actually understood that. When he took it away he was all like surprised Pikachu face that advertisers left.