Mistakes we made in our company’s first 8 years
>>> ... in purchasing SoapBox for the entire company. They’re an old school business. 500M Revenue and 23 people.<p>Err, wow. that's 20M per employee ... I am astounded - is that real? 100,000 to 300,000 is common in consultancy style services, I mean even Google has ~100k people on ~100bn which is 1M per person<p>So really 20M per employee is stupidly "out there".<p># google numbers - yeah ok I mean Alphabet, but more accurately  90k people vs 110bn but few years ago it was 40k vs 50bn so not changed much - ratio of about 1.1M per seems consistent - and Google is rinsing the productivity making the 23 people at 500M seem even more ridiculous.  Maybe some obscure fintech? maybe big revenue low income? would love to know more