-finance -payment -HR -management -verification of hosts / properties -scam detection and moderation -legal -dispute arbitration -programming -infrastructure -projects -building management for properties like HQ they own -customer service -etc.
They'd be lucky to get away with a couple multiples of your guess. This isn't netflix, there are far more facets to operations.
But yes, we can all agree that these take a lot of people to run
With Netflix I think you need to count the content creators, since first party content is the majority these days.
I agree, but the engineering department could be handled with less than 50 people. Most of the work they do is linked to operation stuff and not engineering
This represent so many people.
This is fine and it is common misconception about how large app businesses work. (kudos to airbnb for making complex things look so simple)
Here is a great post about Uber and why Uber gets complex (once you have many product lines across hundreds of cities, each with their own subtleties and rules/regulations) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346
They've got a lot going for them they are:
A verb now like Google or Zoom.
The dominant player in a global 2 sided market
Potential major competitors (i.e. AirBnB by Marriott) are blocked by legal complications
They're going to be very profitable for a long time. A 100billion valuation is a tall order as it implies that, at some point, you start generating 10 billion a year or so in cash flow. But I can see them doing that.
http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-sharing-econ...
TLDR;The per share value based upon the latest share count is about $54/share.