They’re probably staffed like a company that’s 10x larger than they seem because they want to be 10x larger ASAP.
Pinterest looks to have earned about $1.1 billion in revenue during the same time with roughly the same number of employees. Fastly is at $250MM in revenue with just 630 employees.
So it looks like Slack is at least twice as large as it should be for its given revenue. But why? Are they supporting too many platforms/devices? Or are chat applications just not that valuable to companies?
What do they do? I am curious on the breakdown of engineering versus everybody else. I am always reminded of Craigslist, which operates with a skeleton crew. In 2017, it was reported they had 50 people on revenue of almost $700 million.