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Compared to the # of users -- i.e. orders of magnitude greater -- that's a pretty reasonably-sized team.

Compared to revenue it doesnt seem crazy either: at approx $150M in Q1-17, thats over $300k revenue per employee per year (if the revenue and headcount stays flat). Certainly there are many profitable companies at a ratio like that.

But for ad-fueled companies the bar to profitability and long term success is quite a bit higher:

Alphabet does about 4x that ($1.3M/employee/year) [0], and Facebook does even better ($1.8M/employee/year) [1][2].

[0] https://abc.xyz/investor/news/earnings/2017/Q1_alphabet_earn...

[1] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

[2] https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/

"As of January 2016, 45.4 million persons were participating in SNAP." https://www.snaptohealth.org/snap/snap-frequently-asked-ques...

https://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/SNAPsummary.... http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/...

I think they meant SNAP the ticker symbol for Snapchat and not the government program.

I also thought it was that Snap initially.

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