[adventured]

Uber is marching toward $10 billion in annual sales. That's the size of Salesforce.com, which has 25,000 full-time employees.

3,000 engineers is not particularly out of line. It's certainly not ludicrous. It's a very large, global business, that is likely to get a lot bigger yet.

[tootie]

Salesforce is a software company. Uber is a taxi company. I understand why they have thousands of taxi drivers.

[raiyu]

Yes but I believe that figure is revenue before paying their drivers, so it would be 30% of that, or $3B.

Still nothing to scoff at.

[uberemployee]

The articles I’ve read state that $10B is Uber’s revenue not gross bookings.