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Re:Twitter COO Dick Costolo Takes Over As CEO From Evan Will... by yesimahuman on Monday October 04, 2010 @03:26PM (#1756970)
I wonder what the break down of technical/sales/etc. people is.

I was shocked, and I believe rightfully so, that digg even had 70+ employees. It just seems wasteful to me.

Then again I don't know what work they have to do behind the scenes.

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Re:Twitter COO Dick Costolo Takes Over As CEO From Evan Will... by andre3k1 on Monday October 04, 2010 @03:41PM (#1757030)
Digg has 70+ employees? Interesting. Doesn't Reddit have less than 10? Someone please fact check that for me.
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Re:Twitter COO Dick Costolo Takes Over As CEO From Evan Will... by kloncks on Monday October 04, 2010 @03:44PM (#1757045)
Reddit has 6. Digg has 60+.
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Re:Twitter COO Dick Costolo Takes Over As CEO From Evan Will... by trickjarrett on Monday October 04, 2010 @05:19PM (#1757493)
Quality over Quantity.

I went with my bosses to visit one of our competitors a few weeks ago; they invited us for a tour. The CEO of the competitor believed that employee count was a direct indicator of the strength of a business. He bragged about having a staff 3x my company's, but the fact is that based on sales data, we're far more efficient, doing a percentage of their sales larger than the ratio of staff sizes.

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Re:Twitter COO Dick Costolo Takes Over As CEO From Evan Will... by elai on Monday October 04, 2010 @05:21PM (#1757503)
Reddit was 4 until recently. They did say they felt like they couldn't really go forward anywhere with that kind of staff although. I don't know if the new 2 hires are enough.
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Re:Twitter COO Dick Costolo Takes Over As CEO From Evan Will... by WalterGR on Monday October 04, 2010 @05:36PM (#1757568)
Reddit was 4 until recently... I don't know if the new 2 hires are enough.

Actually Reddit has been at least 5 for some time. The 2 "new hires" were announced retroactively.

http://blog.reddit.com/2010/08/welcome-alex-and-lia.html

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