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60-100 staff? Sorry but that's very naïve. Think about how many core services this takes:

-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.

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> This isn't netflix, there are far more facets to operations.

With Netflix I think you need to count the content creators, since first party content is the majority these days.

Also monitoring laws and taxes in every municipality in the world. Maintaining the app is by far the simplest and easiest part of their business.

I agreed with everything until Netflix. Netflix is incredibly complex.

But yes, we can all agree that these take a lot of people to run

Netflix is complex and they also have entire teams whose effect on the product or business is zero or negative. Almost all companies are inefficient in different ways.

> 60-100 staff? Sorry but that's very naïve. Think about how many core services this takes:

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

the parent explained how it was impossible to get to that low of a number: -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.

This represent so many people.

polote said "engineering". You responded by listing a bunch of non-engineering jobs that need done. OK, but you're arguing with something that is not what polote said.

these are not non-engineering jobs to be done, these are internal and external products to build.

But they don't even have "customer service"

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