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>>mef+(OP)
> The company counted an average of only 42 employees in 2023, down from 61 two years earlier. During the year, it generated $31MM in net revenue per employee (13-28x that of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft) and $15.5MM in operating profit (27-560x).

This is the wildest part. One company that is proving all the "why does <company> need 10000 engineers?" takes true.

>>paxys+7Yb
My gut feeling is this number doesn't match our assumptions.

For instance moderation and community management alone must be a huge pool of people. While the content and comments can be adult, they'll need to deal with all the payment related back and forth, including chargebacks, legal inquiries etc. Same for doxxing, underage filtering, spam and so on.

I assume most if not all of it is a different company which isn't counted in the 42 employees.

Of course engineering can be treated the same, with sub-contracting companies dealing with the actual running of the service or part of the developement.

>>makeit+6pc
The articles say they have 100s of contractors all over. My guess is they are not reporting their true “headcount” by claiming those are not employees