> 366k in profit per person

Which drives home the need to cut compensation costs. Three sixty in available spend relates to about a $180k salary. Below market. And that's assuming we're zeroing out shareholders.

This is profit, not revenue. It already accounts for salaries.

I misread gross profit. My bad.

You read what you wanted to see, didn’t you?

Everyone does this including you.

that's profit after employee compensation costs.

That's net profit after they already paid everyone.

“ Trade private equity in technology companies. Former aerospace investment banker and before that, algorithmic equity derivatives trader. FinTech + Space + Materials seed investor."

Your bio makes this legitimately so much funnier.

Including or excluding stock based compensation expense?

Capitalism at its finest

Ok, I will be the usual HN contrarian. $366K net profits per employee at the scale of Google isn’t that impressive. Especially as a software , service company which hold arguably a monopoly.