&gt; The right size. 300 employees is too few. Yahoo! has 12,500 employees, and is worth $33bn on the stock market. GitHub needs at least 5,000 employees.<p>It seems like your heart is in the right place but the quoted statement reads to me as a total non-sequitur. What model are you using to justify your calls for GitHub to hire 9x it&#x27;s current number of employees?<p>What would these 4.5K new employees be doing exactly?<p>At the end of the day they provide a useful way to store and version control a code base, but the enterprise software market is very crowded and GitHub being in vogue could be a fad that gets eclipsed by something else, just like how HipChat was THE thing for teams until Slack.<p>Arbitrarily saying that &quot;Google will birth AI and they need at least 1M employees to make it happen&quot; is something that, in my opinion, sounds similarly vapid from any kind of quantitative or forecasting standpoint.<p>Would like to know how the figure was estimated, and how mentioning Yahoo is relevant in the least. They have a huge stake in Alibaba, and yahoos business model is a defacto investment company, with Yahoo standalone value [yhoo market cap - (yhoo stake in baba)*(market cap of baba)]  around -15B last I checked. It&#x27;s not even apples and oranges, it&#x27;s like grapes vs dolphins - meaningless comparison<p>Edit: fixed my yhoo&#x2F;baba math for clarity