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by InsideOutSanta 546 days ago
It's not a small team, but Valve seems to have a very similar proportion of employees to users. I think they have about 400 employees, and a user base of 140 million. That's roughly 3 employees per million users.
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They’re running a marketplace though, and that’s a bit of a special case — obviously why VCs are always very excited for anything that is or looks like it might able to become marketplace-shaped.

Certainly there aren’t 140M MAU fore the steam deck or any of the games they’ve built themselves, that’s for sure.

WhatsApp pre-acquisition by Meta was also very lean, some 40-50 people total serving 200 MAU.