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Serious question: why does Treehouse need 45 employees? What's the division of labor? Are most of them required for content creation, or engineering, or what?
by joshdotsmith 13y ago
Serious question: why does Treehouse need 45 employees? What's the division of labor? Are most of them required for content creation, or engineering, or what?
I've been thinking a lot about company size lately, and was always impressed that not long before acquisition time Instagram had a team of just six (which quickly expanded to twelve prior to acquisition).
Is such a small team size really only achievable by user generated content companies?
- jimrhoskins 13y agoYou can see our full team, and their responsibilities here (http://teamtreehouse.com/about http://teamtreehouse.com/about) The content team (teachers, video, audio, motion design) is a sizable portion of the company. They focus on writing, producing, and supporting the learning content and video. The app team (devs + designers) focus on things like the the web app, the learning tools like our code challenges, and quite a bit of other stuff. We have support team members who are always interacting with and helping our students. Marketing, sales, and operations are doing what you would expect them to. It's interesting to watch the scaling in person. When I started it was just Nick Pettit and myself as teachers ( and we did our own video/audio work), Ryan the CEO, and we had a contract dev and designer. Now it's ~60, not even sure of the exact number, and everyone keeps really busy.
- nickpettit 13y agoCan confirm. Source: I'm Nick.