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My gut feeling is this number doesn't match our assumptions.

For instance moderation and community management alone must be a huge pool of people. While the content and comments can be adult, they'll need to deal with all the payment related back and forth, including chargebacks, legal inquiries etc. Same for doxxing, underage filtering, spam and so on.

I assume most if not all of it is a different company which isn't counted in the 42 employees.

Of course engineering can be treated the same, with sub-contracting companies dealing with the actual running of the service or part of the developement.




The articles say they have 100s of contractors all over. My guess is they are not reporting their true “headcount” by claiming those are not employees


Moderation and CM will be contractors.


...and of course, the actual content isn't being created by employees.




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