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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by rhizome on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:44PM (#25098053)
These numbers are easy to find, but sure, let's break out our calculators. By recent generic numbers, Jane street does $171MM revenues across 900 employees. Apple has $274B revenues across 137,000 heads.

$190,000 vs. $2,000,000. Netflix is even higher: $2.4MM. What numbers do you have?

Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by f9ad2451 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:19AM (#25101815)
Your Jane Street numbers are not even close. They're required to report this stuff in the UK, which shows revenues of $229MM (see https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...). And that's just the UK revenue - most of the business is in the US. I would estimate closer to $1MM/head.
Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by srtjstjsj on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:51PM (#25098094)
Profit matters, not revenue.
Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by icedchai on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:03AM (#25098401)
Where do you think most revenue goes? Employees.
Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by username90 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:35AM (#25098559)
Depends on the company. For example most of Walmart's revenue goes to buying goods to sell. Apple sells physical products and hence will spend a lot of money acquiring the physical parts etc, you can't really compare their revenue to for examples Facebooks revenue.