The answer to revenue-per-employee scale: Valve, with just a few hundred people
willcb · x · 2026-09-21
Asked which company is most impressive in revenue, scale and verticals, the serious answer is Valve — which happens to employ only a few hundred people, making its per-capita efficiency extraordinary. AI researchers discussed it as a striking data point.
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