• Evotech@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It’s just insane to me that it even takes 1500 people to run Spotify to begin with

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      6 months ago

      People think that because you can build a Spotify clone with two sticks and a heroku subscription it must not need a lot of people to work on. It’s what Elon said about Twitter prior to buying it and gutting all the features.

      These apps are first and foremost businesses with legal, HR, and all sorts of other roles before you get to product. And the products are so mature, so complex, that you need dozens of teams to cover the entire thing

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      6 months ago

      Why not? Some companies do have a fraction of Spotify users and have around 100 software engineers. Things do not run by themselves. Also they are in many countries so you need to keep up with legal changes…

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        6 months ago

        Spotify is also a record label now. They probably need an entire division devoted just to the marketing and strategy needed to make that successful