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The problem with a 60 person team in a volatile market is that they're going to have a hard time weathering the spikeyness. It's not like two guys in a garage w
by alanctgardner2 14y ago
The problem with a 60 person team in a volatile market is that they're going to have a hard time weathering the spikeyness. It's not like two guys in a garage who can leave and come back to it. These people are buying houses on the presumption that they'll be employed in 12 months, when the revenue stream dries up it's going to be trouble.
I wonder how these social game companies get so big in the first place. I thought it was all but proven that consistently being successful in this space is almost impossible. If it's VC funding, what's the exit? They all seem to run into the ground. In this case it seems like the founders had enough capital from the last time they shipped this game. Personally, I would seek a more stable space after hitting it big once.
- JoshTriplett 14y ago> These people are buying houses on the presumption that they'll be employed in 12 months If you're really making a quarter-billion a year in profit, with 60 employees, thoe employees shouldn't need a loan to buy a house...
- alanctgardner2 14y agoIf they have sense saving money from the few weeks of 6 figure sales to weather the inevitable slump while they iterate or find the next big thing. Giving every employee an equal share of the revenue would be equally short sighted.