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Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Never really understood why companies like Twitter can have thousands of employees for what the product is.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, Twitter needs very good infrastructure to be usable (e.g. caching) and obviously content moderation is as robust as their investment in it (those could be contract workers though)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So does Valve?

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

Oh, sure, I didn't mean to compare the two really. Just pointing out that although Twitter is simple and easy to replicate in concept, trying to scale to support all humans as users (theoretically) is difficult

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