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A little googling puts Craigslist at 81 million in revenue. I don't know how much of that disappears into serving 9 billion page views a month and the payment on their Victorian mansion in San Francisco, but before that at 24 employees they're over $3 million.


And looking at the numbers for HP and IBM, I am becoming ever more convinced that small is the way to go and big companies are just not the place to be.


I'm amazed that IBM has 20 times more employees than Google. I thought I was working at a big company, but apparently there's big and then there's BIG.

It was like how in one of the recent news reports, NEC just laid off more than the entire population of Google. We're peanuts compared to them.




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