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Curious if there are any companies which currently create millions of jobs? I suppose one could create a new market which could have capacity for such jobs. Th

by ch 12y ago

Curious if there are any companies which currently create millions of jobs? I suppose one could create a new market which could have capacity for such jobs. That might still be in the best interest of a startup.

morgante 12y ago
Walmart employs 2 million people, but it's hard to imagine a venture-backed technology startup with plans for mass employment.
rwmj 12y ago
Be careful what you wish for. Microsoft have created many jobs in the industries that fix / work around / benefit from bugs in their software.
- spyder 12y ago
  Oh true... So we should create a company that destroys things and creates jobs to rebuild them... :-O Edit: Looks like the "List of largest employers" in the other comments confirms this with the military companies as the top employers. :-(
JoshTriplett 12y ago
> I suppose one could create a new market which could have capacity for such jobs. That might still be in the best interest of a startup. Not that it precisely fills this need, but look at things like Mechanical Turk. That's one way to think about this problem: rather than being a direct employer of millions, find ways to connect millions with useful employment doing jobs that we can't easily automate.
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polarix 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers Seems like walmart and the Chinese energy companies are the only private employers of >1m humans.
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patio11 12y ago
Curious if there are any companies which currently create millions of jobs? I'd be really surprised if Microsoft or Google didn't have this impact worldwide, though in Microsoft's case it might be tough to distinguish whether those are net jobs. (Though in fairness, in a very real sense, everyone at Google and Google's ecosystem owes their jobs to Bill Gates putting a computer on every desk and many homes.)
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dllthomas 12y ago
As has been mentioned a few places here (and as the RFS now states), the goal is not "have a million employees", but "create a million jobs". As the people employed may or may not work for you, and as a lot of companies displace other companies, having a million employees is neither necessary nor sufficient.
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jameshart 12y ago
230,000 active application publishers creating apps for the Apple US AppStore [1]. Not sure how that maps to global appstores. Global app revenues are measured in the tens of billions. Could plausibly believe that the iOS app ecosystem globally employs of the order of a million people - effectively making Apple the creator of a million non-employee jobs. [1] http://www.pocketgamer.biz/metrics/app-store/ http://www.pocketgamer.biz/metrics/app-store/

by ch 12y ago

morgante 12y ago

Walmart employs 2 million people, but it's hard to imagine a venture-backed technology startup with plans for mass employment.

rwmj 12y ago

Be careful what you wish for. Microsoft have created many jobs in the industries that fix / work around / benefit from bugs in their software.

spyder 12y ago
Oh true... So we should create a company that destroys things and creates jobs to rebuild them... :-O Edit: Looks like the "List of largest employers" in the other comments confirms this with the military companies as the top employers. :-(

JoshTriplett 12y ago

> I suppose one could create a new market which could have capacity for such jobs. That might still be in the best interest of a startup. Not that it precisely fills this need, but look at things like Mechanical Turk. That's one way to think about this problem: rather than being a direct employer of millions, find ways to connect millions with useful employment doing jobs that we can't easily automate.

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polarix 12y ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers Seems like walmart and the Chinese energy companies are the only private employers of >1m humans.

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patio11 12y ago

Curious if there are any companies which currently create millions of jobs? I'd be really surprised if Microsoft or Google didn't have this impact worldwide, though in Microsoft's case it might be tough to distinguish whether those are net jobs. (Though in fairness, in a very real sense, everyone at Google and Google's ecosystem owes their jobs to Bill Gates putting a computer on every desk and many homes.)

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dllthomas 12y ago

As has been mentioned a few places here (and as the RFS now states), the goal is not "have a million employees", but "create a million jobs". As the people employed may or may not work for you, and as a lot of companies displace other companies, having a million employees is neither necessary nor sufficient.

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jameshart 12y ago

230,000 active application publishers creating apps for the Apple US AppStore [1]. Not sure how that maps to global appstores. Global app revenues are measured in the tens of billions. Could plausibly believe that the iOS app ecosystem globally employs of the order of a million people - effectively making Apple the creator of a million non-employee jobs. [1] http://www.pocketgamer.biz/metrics/app-store/ http://www.pocketgamer.biz/metrics/app-store/