As with most things in tech, time served is pretty much irrelevant. If you do something valuable fast you can build a lot of value quickly.
You can build a lot of perceived value, as we've learned from so many acquisitions becoming hot potatoes a few years down the run.
That's 800 employees too much.
The reason why tech sucks these days is because everyone over hires and empire builds.
Sales. They have huge ARR after a few short years because it’s a sales org with a few engineers scattered about.
So not a tech company. Fair enough.
Are cloudflare, azure, and AWS not tech companies?
Too much to build the product, but you need researchers (check out their blog), marketing, sales, solutions engineers, support, legal, accountants, etc.
That's a big claim. Have you seen their product? It's basically a collection of 10-15 distinct cloud security products - CDR, data classification, vulnerability scanning, asset inventory, etc. etc. etc. all working together.
Each one of these is a 50-person company on its own.
Quick build your 100 person company and beat them. It's still early days for them, and you.
It isn't unheard of in the tech world. WhatsApp sold itself for $19 billion in 5 years. A lot of people thought it was outrageous when facebook bought whatsapp for $19 billion. Today, everyone views it as a great investment.