OCTOBER 8, 2016 · FACEBOOK Used to be the limits to company growth were access to the global market. That is no longer the barrier. Everybody has (potential) access to all customers day one. What’s the new rate-limiting factor? If the rules have changed, what have they changed to? One possibility is that the rate at which a company can accumulate employees is the rate-limiting factor to growth.
I don't understand the third diagram --- meta has 75k-ish employees, down from 85k-ish, don't they?
according to site:investor.fb.com headcount
The data is from the publication date.
oh, srry for the noise --- despite the big, fat "FACEBOOK 2016" my brain only parsed the teensy Dec 2023 date of the repost, on top.
now that the data can be projected on to today, I wonder how the article hypothesis holds up.
No problem at all. That's why it's a conversation.
I'm not excited to update the data, so I won't do it. It was maybe an hour of work to look up & render back then.
and then in 2024 AI changes the game faster than VR...
Sign me up for that company when you start it. :)