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Examples of people maximizing efficiency to accomplish ambitious things!
WhatsApp: At the time of Facebook's acquisition, WhatsApp had only 55 employees serving around 450 million users. Facebook acquired it for $19billion in 2014.
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Instagram: At the time of Facebook's acquisition, Instagram had only 13 employees serving around 30 million users. Facebook acquired it for $1billion in 2012.
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Among Us: Nearly half a billion people played Among Us in November, 2020. The development team consisted of four people.
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Dubsmash: Scaled to 200 million users with just three engineers. Dubsmash had 12 employees when Reddit acquired them.
Minecraft: At the time of Microsoft's $2.5 billion acquisition in 2014, it had around 40 employees serving some 100 million users worldwide and brought in more than $100 million in profit just the previous year.
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Uniswap: What Wells Fargo is trying to achieve with 200,000 employees, Uniswap is trying to do the same with 20!
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Expensify: Expensify IPO'd on 11th of November 2021 at a market cap of nearly 4 billion dollars with only 140 employees. It had $1M+ annualized revenue per employee at the time of IPO.
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If you find more companies/products like these, do reach out. I want to make this list as exhaustive as possible!