[soheil]

They have 500,000 developers, do the math at 30% commission for each assuming a $180k salary that's $50k even if they hire 0.1% of them that adds up to $50k * 500 = 25m they probably paid a few times more than that but not a few hundred times, which therefore makes this a pretty sweet deal for Google assuming the community keeps growing.

[throw_away_777]

That 500,000 developers is a vanity metric. The real number is around 50,000 who have completed a challenge, and around 5,000 who are active on the site. Also of those 5,000 users the large majority are employed somewhere else.

[gpawl]

do you have buy kaggle to hire kaggle members?

[soheil]

Well I'm not sure if they expose their members' contact info or if it'd be easy for Google to advertise on their site as effectively.