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0 pointsAperocky4y ago0 comments

If they wanted, they can expand easily to a lot more - which is probably what happened to them inside facebook anyways.

Even then, they can still be insanely profitable per engineer.

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> which is probably what happened to them inside facebook anyways

I think initially they only expanded to ~50 engineers until 900M users. Even today they are estimated to have only ~500 employees (no idea what percentage of that are engineers).

capableweb4y ago

LinkedIn lists 1823 people working at Whatsapp, not sure how accurate that number is, probably self-reported so could be lower/higher, but ~500 seems off. Employee count seems to grow 1-5% month-to-month.

Engineering is listed as 25% of those 1823, operations 8%, education 6% and business development 6%.

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