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It's about revenue, not user count. Money changes everything: when customers pay, they expect a different level of service. A company's revenue per employee is a common benchmark, and is usually around $600K-$1MM or so for successful companies at or near scale, up to $2.2MM for outliers like Apple(1). A company cannot grow to $100MM revenue and higher without having a large number of employees just to manage those re…
A different level of service means customer support, it doesn't mean 10x-100x the number of developers working on the product. So honestly, I'm curious---what is AirBnB going to do with ~1000 developers. Facebook expanded their headcount and created a whole suite of products glomped onto their original vision. I'd like to know if AirBnB intends the same and if so what are their plans. Ofcourse, they have no obligatio…
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#411,000 developers? Downvote.