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by rybosworld 1213 days ago
7000+ employees for an app that signs documents?
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That's a bit of an oversimplification to be fair. They offer multiple products (esignature, contract lifecycle management). Does not change that it's still a lot of employees.
Seems very high, yes. My bet most of those are working in compliance/legal stuff. DocuSign is accepted pretty much everywhere.
Enterprise marketing and sales always takes up a LOT of people.

The Enterprise is PROFITABLE. The issue is that normally There Can Be Only One(tm).

The "security" companies like Auth0 were worth gigabucks NOT because they had a superior technical solution but because they managed to crack some number of large customers who now were never going to remove that system and would now be a cash cow forevermore.

It's enterprise software. 2/3 of headcount are probably sales, support engineers, deployment, compliance, legal, etc.
That's not just what DocuSign does, except for their smallest customers.
6300 now, and I feel like the number should be closer to 630.