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by IshKebab 1053 days ago
Salaries presumably. Apparently they have 500 employees, probably on crazy SF salaries. Easily $1-200m/year.
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> Apparently they have 500 employee

Then it's a management problem: what were those people hired to do, given that the content is generated and curated by community alone?

Given that the software running StackOverflow has been working for many years without signifiant changes, they could probably have stuck to ten times less employees and generate substantial profit, but eh that doesn't make a good exit valuation…

> Easily $1-200m/year.

What is this supposed to mean?

I agree. $100m-$200m/year on staff costs.
Right but the question remains: why do you need 500 people to run a Q&A site with mostly plain text, and some banner ads?
I agree, it's a crazy number of staff.