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If true, and if the internet is correct about company size being between 51 and 200, then that means each employee only generates between ~$78K and ~$20K. Anyone know if that is low or not? Seems low to me (compared with software engineer salaries), but I suppose that depends on what kinds of employees they have and how much they pay.

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Low, even for a startup. Those numbers almost imply pre-revenue.

Revenue machines generate $1mil / employee: companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.

Startups in growth mode can plausibly run around $100k with the excuse that they're spending cash ahead of revenue. Efficient startups with great revenue growth can do $200k-$400k.

If you're much below $100k, you should have something you're planning to monetize later. It seems that Trello is focused on getting users now and turning on an aggressive pricing model later.

From their 2016 Annual report ( https://s2.q4cdn.com/141359120/files/doc_financials/2016/Q4/... )

Employees = 1760 (page 43)

Revenue = 457 Million (page 48)

Revenue per employee ≈ 260k

That's for Alassian, not Trello.

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