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> IBM employs 61x the number of people as Facebook and makes almost 13x as much revenue. The interesting thing to me is the ratio between those two numbers: IB
by wtbob 12y ago
> IBM employs 61x the number of people as Facebook and makes almost 13x as much revenue.
The interesting thing to me is the ratio between those two numbers: IBM employs 4.7 people to get the same revenue Facebook gets with 1 (an even better comparison, of course, would be between payrolls and revenues, but I couldn't quickly find the payroll statistics for the two).
- benologist 12y agoWhy is this interesting vs not a particularly suitable metric for comparing them?