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MySpace Is In Far Worse Shape Than Its New Executives Thought
- larryfreeman 17y agoLets be honest. This is the spin that many new execs give especially after the previous executives were fired. If things are worse than they appeared, then the new execs look that much better when things improve and don't look so bad if they fail. If they fail, they just argue that it couldn't be salvaged
- quizbiz 17y agoThe article talks about New sales leadership. What exactly is there to sell?
- blhack 17y ago"If you can't run that site with 750 people, you don't know how to run a business," No offense, but what the hell do they need even 750 people for?
- vijayr 17y agoI remember reading somewhere that Facebook has 400 employees (400 employees for 200 million members). The difference between MySpace and FB is striking.
- slig 17y agoAnd I thought that the 80+ people on digg were too much
- ubernostrum 17y agoIt's almost certain that only a small fraction are actually technical people, because you don't need many tech people to keep such a site actually running. But you do need people doing: * Marketing/sales/advertising * Finance/accounting * Customer service * Public relations * Compliance * etc., etc. You also need at least some management to keep things running. And, at that size, human resources. And probably facilities/B&G people. And... well, let's just say I'm not surprised that there'd be 750 people.
- gscott 17y agoThere is 1500 employees now, they are thinking of cutting it down to 750.
- varaon 17y agoNote: The NWS is News Corp's stock symbol, not the acronym for "not work-safe."
- robryan 17y agoIt would be interesting to know how many of that workforce actually work in engineering type roles. MySpace, being part of news corp, also probably has a large amount of people in traditional media content type roles. I think they have managed that side of the business well, they are certainly better at monetrization than facebook. It's just the state of there platform that lets them down.