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by acchow 1226 days ago
You should hope that a software business would scale non-linearly with employees.
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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.