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Re:United States vs. Google by athms on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:13PM (#24851590)
>It's inaccurate to characterize them as a "tiny startup."

YouTube had 65 employees when they were acquired.

I do agree that they were not a startup. This word should only be used for companies that are starting up; getting their legal structure together, hiring, and initial R&D. Once you are offering widgets (ad space), you are no longer a startup. Profitability is immaterial to startup status.

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Re:United States vs. Google by Judgmentality on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:56PM (#24852091)
Why does the number of employees matter? If anything that's a testament to how valuable they were, to be able to do so much with so little.
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Re:United States vs. Google by athms on Saturday October 24, 2020 @07:40AM (#24878559)
It doesn't. My comment was about the word tiny" and 65 is tiny especially when compared to Google.
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Re:United States vs. Google by ulfw on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:03AM (#24857113)
And Instagram had like what... 8?

Not every company that's successful and has millions of users needs to have a bloated org

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Re:United States vs. Google by romanoderoma on Thursday October 22, 2020 @04:26AM (#24855927)
WhatsApp had 55 employees before FB acquisition
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