[beambot]

I'm quite the opposite: Twilio's revenue tripled from 2019 to today; if their headcount didn't triple to support that growth, I'd run away!

[acchow]

You should hope that a software business would scale non-linearly with employees.

[beambot]

SG&A, which includes sales & marketing, grew 3.06x since 2019 -- so linearly with revenue growth, as is typical for enterprise B2B.

And on the engineering front: If they're not investing substantially in R&D, then they're likely going to flame out in the coming decade. R&D expense grew 2.62x in the same timeframe.

[shagie]

(from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34777320 )

Tripling the revenue and headcount would be ok if they could make this line go up (or even stay level)

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=TWLO+profit+divided+by+...

As it is, the number is negative and the slope is negative.

[Patrol8394]

How much of their revenue came in because of acquisitions like Segment? That said, sustainable growth is ok, Twilio's head count growth was "wild" to put it mild.