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by quaquaqua1 2269 days ago
Not exactly, if they just so happen to be spending a lot of money on purchases of ad-space, or advertising services.

For example, just one marketing VP with a salary of $120,000 could have an advertising spend budget of a few million.

But in Yelp's specific case, they do have a ton of sales/customer service people who most definitely are among the first to go, along with engineers who are working on projects that are not related to keeping the website from 404ing