Comments on: Cluetrain still makes sense for Doc http://inluminent.com/2003/04/10/cluetrain-still-makes-sense-for-doc/ my comments on business, marketing, advertising, email, CAN-SPAM, selling as a profession, photography, computers and other stuff... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:28:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Scott Johnson http://inluminent.com/2003/04/10/cluetrain-still-makes-sense-for-doc/#comment-919 Scott Johnson Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://inluminent.com/?p=592#comment-919 What the fsck am I missing here? Count the # of employees and start multiplying by head count to see if these values are reasonable. We've seen google sales estimates at 60 meg to 300 meg. If you start to get $ per employee that are out of the norms then you at least have defined a more feasible range than 5x. They claim to be profitable and the fully loaded cost of a silicon valley employee is something like 1.5xSalary so if you assume a baseline of $100K (lot of phds remember then they have a burn rate of 150K * # of staff). Hasn't anyone ever thought of counting the damn cars in the parking lot ? This is long now so I'm going to move it to my blog ... Sorry for the rant. *grumble, grumble* Sorry to be a cynic but the idea of a company w/ 200 odd staff "soon to be a billion dollar company" is a bit odd. What the fsck am I missing here? Count the # of employees and start multiplying by head count to see if these values are reasonable. We’ve seen google sales estimates at 60 meg to 300 meg. If you start to get $ per employee that are out of the norms then you at least have defined a more feasible range than 5x. They claim to be profitable and the fully loaded cost of a silicon valley employee is something like 1.5xSalary so if you assume a baseline of $100K (lot of phds remember then they have a burn rate of 150K * # of staff).

Hasn’t anyone ever thought of counting the damn cars in the parking lot ?

This is long now so I’m going to move it to my blog … Sorry for the rant.

*grumble, grumble* Sorry to be a cynic but the idea of a company w/ 200 odd staff “soon to be a billion dollar company” is a bit odd.

]]> By: Jeremy Zawodny http://inluminent.com/2003/04/10/cluetrain-still-makes-sense-for-doc/#comment-920 Jeremy Zawodny Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://inluminent.com/?p=592#comment-920 200? Google has roughly 700-800 employees right now. And I'd wager than < 120 of 'em are PhDs. 200?

Google has roughly 700-800 employees right now. And I’d wager than < 120 of ‘em are PhDs.

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