I know there's a common theme to look at the sizes of tech companies at times like this and ask what do all the people do, but, bear with me here... what do all these people do?
Just taking a few other data points, Twitter (when it was Twitter), had around 7k people, and strikes me as a similar sort of product to LinkedIn, at least the same ballpark. Google has somewhere around 180k (according to public info), and has many products that feel like a LinkedIn sort of size.
Whatever you may think of my other examples, LinkedIn really does seem like an outlier? Am I missing a major aspect of their business? It's a social network, a recruitment service, an ads business. Is that 22k people?
Just taking a few other data points, Twitter (when it was Twitter), had around 7k people, and strikes me as a similar sort of product to LinkedIn, at least the same ballpark. Google has somewhere around 180k (according to public info), and has many products that feel like a LinkedIn sort of size.
Whatever you may think of my other examples, LinkedIn really does seem like an outlier? Am I missing a major aspect of their business? It's a social network, a recruitment service, an ads business. Is that 22k people?