Teams for each environment (I'd assume iOS, Android, web). Teams of 10-20, with 2 people who do any actual work and the rest who know just enough to tweak the colors on a screen but not much else.
A back-end team, probably some network infrastructure (cloud) guys. Most of them do actual work.
Project managers for each team, probably some more middle management type "glue" people who take the specs from the customers to the engineers because they're people persons.
Accounting team. Probably an IT team. Some sort of procurement (might be done by accounting or IT).
Director and CxO level people, probably 10-15.
HR (or whatever they're calling it now) to make sure that you get your DIE messaging while scraping the bottom of the bottom of the barrel for Diverse interns and employees.
You'd be surprised how many people can bloat up an organization that makes a simple, shitty app. I know from experience: my company makes a more complex app but we're still probably 2-3 times the size that we need to be.
Also he didn't even bring up the marketing and sales people. Company whose revenue is all ad-driven is going to have a ton of inside (work the phones) and outside (schmooze the customers and get them to sign the line that is dotted) salespeople.
Also he didn't even bring up the marketing and sales people.
Oh god, yeah. How'd I forget that?
Our primary app sells itself and they're desperately trying to move into a new market. Millions of happy, paying customers that mostly subscribed to the original app from word of mouth.
The new market has managed 15k paying customers in 4 years worth of heavy advertising. But we still have about 20 people working on email campaigns, promo videos, and all that shit.
When investors shower you with money, they expect you to do something with it. Most of the time it means hiring people to give the impression you're expanding.
why does a hookup app even need that many employees?
Teams for each environment (I'd assume iOS, Android, web). Teams of 10-20, with 2 people who do any actual work and the rest who know just enough to tweak the colors on a screen but not much else.
A back-end team, probably some network infrastructure (cloud) guys. Most of them do actual work.
Project managers for each team, probably some more middle management type "glue" people who take the specs from the customers to the engineers because they're people persons.
Accounting team. Probably an IT team. Some sort of procurement (might be done by accounting or IT).
Director and CxO level people, probably 10-15.
HR (or whatever they're calling it now) to make sure that you get your DIE messaging while scraping the bottom of the bottom of the barrel for Diverse interns and employees.
You'd be surprised how many people can bloat up an organization that makes a simple, shitty app. I know from experience: my company makes a more complex app but we're still probably 2-3 times the size that we need to be.
There's probably more demand for that on the lesbian apps since they're mostly in the business of purging anyone who isn't interested in "girl dick".
Oh game companies are much worse.
You can gain 2-3 layers of bloat in "producers".
Can confirm it also happened in medical devices.
Also he didn't even bring up the marketing and sales people. Company whose revenue is all ad-driven is going to have a ton of inside (work the phones) and outside (schmooze the customers and get them to sign the line that is dotted) salespeople.
Always way more of them than you think.
Oh god, yeah. How'd I forget that?
Our primary app sells itself and they're desperately trying to move into a new market. Millions of happy, paying customers that mostly subscribed to the original app from word of mouth.
The new market has managed 15k paying customers in 4 years worth of heavy advertising. But we still have about 20 people working on email campaigns, promo videos, and all that shit.
Pareto Principle is like The Wall, it always wins in the end.
I expect they have to cover a lot of "representation" bases.
When investors shower you with money, they expect you to do something with it. Most of the time it means hiring people to give the impression you're expanding.
That was my answer.