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I have a family subscription of 1PW. I can easily share some password with my wife and our daughter is getting used to using a password manager before she's 10.

I totally empathize with those who refuse to use cloud/subscription services as, let's face it, there are a lot of bad actors doing crappy things with our data.

But for me 1Password seems like a small, honest company providing great quality service and software. I'm a happy customer.

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> But for me 1Password seems like a small, honest company providing great quality service and software.

Yes, I imagine because they have carefully crafted that image through blog posts and impression management. They have over 70 employees to write a password manager. 70!

But that's a bit specious. There are not 70 software developers at AgileBits engaged in writing the code for the product. A business like AgileBits requires a lot more overhead than just software engineering.

We are actually more than 100 people now. A big part of our team is dedicated to customer support. After all there are over 15 mln 1Password users and we get several thousand emails per day. There are over 30,000 businesses using 1Password.

We have designer and development teams for Mac/iOS (Objective-C, Swift), Windows (C#, .NET), Android (Java, Kotlin), browser extensions (JavaScript), 1Password server (Go), 1Password web client (TypeScript, ReactJS), command-line client (Go), SCIM/LDAP integration (Go, Docker, Kubernetes), and a ton of other smaller projects.

There is a Security Team that does security reviews, works with BugCrowd researchers, and does SOC 2 compliance. DevOps team works with AWS and Google Cloud.

We want to do more. We are hiring :)

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