News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend. Parent comment

Re:Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by irgolic on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:09AM (#37685452)
> I remember a comparison on HN about how booking.com is O(50) people and Airbnb is O(2000) total

Does anyone have a link to this?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by smueller1234 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:32AM (#37685599)
That's nonsense. Booking.com with it's subsidiaries was about 18000 or so people when I left in 2017. About 1800 of that were in engineering The vast majority of staff were working either on the supply or customer service side.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by selcuka on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:34AM (#37686079)
I don't know about booking.com, but when Facebook acquired Instagram for $1B they only had 13 employees. WhatsApp had 55 employees when they were bought (again by Facebook) for $19B.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by jamil7 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:37AM (#37686108)
Crunchbase says it's closer to 10000.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by em500 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:55AM (#37686628)
According to Google Finance:

BKNG: Employees: 23,100, Revenue(2022): 17.1B, Net Income(2022): 3.1B

ABNB: Employees: 6,811, Revenue(2022): 8.4B, Net Income(2022): 1.9B

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BKNG:NASDAQ

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/ABNB:NASDAQ

[ Parent | on HN ]