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> They apparently have 2,360 employees doing who knows what (not growing the user base).

I don't understand what all these people do all day. Same with Twitter, they have 3860 employees according to their website. It seems like 10X as many as needed. I've worked in a few offices with less than 100 employees total, and while I have no idea what it takes to run a service with that much traffic, Snapchat runs on Google's cloud service.

> “Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn’t mean they’re Google.""

Maybe it will be a classic in the same genre as Ballmers answer to what he thought about Apple's new product the iPhone.




A large % of that number is in sales.

Unfortunately B2B sales is still very much people driven. Lots of calls, emails, meetings x 10 until you close.




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