Compared to revenue it doesnt seem crazy either: at approx $150M in Q1-17, thats over $300k revenue per employee per year (if the revenue and headcount stays flat). Certainly there are many profitable companies at a ratio like that.
But for ad-fueled companies the bar to profitability and long term success is quite a bit higher:
Alphabet does about 4x that ($1.3M/employee/year) [0], and Facebook does even better ($1.8M/employee/year) [1][2].
But for ad-fueled companies the bar to profitability and long term success is quite a bit higher:
Alphabet does about 4x that ($1.3M/employee/year) [0], and Facebook does even better ($1.8M/employee/year) [1][2].
[0] https://abc.xyz/investor/news/earnings/2017/Q1_alphabet_earn...
[1] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
[2] https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/