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The New Status Game for Companies: Fewer Employees
a small minority of the most productive office employees can now capture a bigger share of all work (and all rewards) in a variety of industries.
Dror Poleg • Slack and the Imaginary Economy.
For one, the faster a new company is built, the faster other companies can benefit from it. New primitives create new opportunities for innovation. Kind of obvious.Less explored is the fact that if a new company needs fewer employees, because it can outsource whole functions to APIs and software, there are more talented employees freed up to go sta... See more
notboring.co • Compounding Crazy
Soaring per-employee valuations are a vivid demonstration of the way accelerating information and communications technology can leverage the efforts of a tiny workforce into enormous investment value and revenue.
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Unbundling of corporate America is happening - the great resignation as people realize they don't have to commute. Those forces help Braintrust. That creates demand within large enterprises that never existed before.
Li Jin • Braintrust’s Founders on How to Run a Decentralised Marketplace
impressive things accomplished by small teams.
- Instagram had 13 employees when they were acquired by Facebook for $1 billion. They had 30 millions users at the time. Source
- Mojang (the company behind Minecraft) had 37 employees when they were acquired by Microsoft for $2.5 billion. At that time, Mojang had revenue of about $290 mil