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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Shit on? This is some baller ass shit -- What is the rev per employee a billion dollars?!?!?!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They've touted before that they may be the most profitable company per employee on earth. They make a few billion in profit per year with a payroll of a few hundred employees.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Must be -- I can't think of anyone else that could come close unless you count Berkshire Hathaway or something

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't know, there's plenty of anti-Valve rhetoric on Lemmy. Plenty of people try to spin it as Valve having a low employee count because they have a lot of contractors. One guy was making a point that Valve employee count is much lower because they buy in AMD GPUs for the Steam Deck... As if Valve should buy chip manufacturing plants and design and manufacture their own GPUs.

Even here somewhere below (or maybe up later) in this thread someone said

Also, a company can pretend to have 10 employees if it instead hires 1000 contractors to do the actual work.

Which is an argument, if you can prove Valve is buying in 10 times the amount of contractors as they have employees for positions that should go to full-time employees. But I very much doubt such information exists.