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> Workplace will be phased out over the next two years and will remain operational until the end of August 2025 > Workplace had as many as 7 million total paying subscribers in May 2021.

This is a suprisingly short period of time to shutter a paid service used by a large number of enterprises (and have them migrate to some other system and potentially lose data in the process).

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Yeah, the issue with trillion dollar scale companies is that they're already on at the extreme end of the diminishing returns curve.

At its current subscription price, Workplace was bringing in $28 million in revenue. Not bad for me and you, but just 0.0025% of Meta's cap. Crazy.

and that revenue only supports ~100 eng salaries. I wonder how many were working on workplace

The $28M is monthly revenue.

> 0.0025% of Meta's cap

Surely yearly revenue would be more interesting here—presumably pretty much any financial metric you can select in a given year will be dwarfed by market cap.

Yes and yes.

meta doesn't have any other enterprise products, so they don't give a shit about them.

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