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2024 week 35 - Fun with company analysis

Humberto Ayres Pereira
Humberto Ayres Pereira, CEO and Co-Founder, Rows
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I was just messing around with a spreadsheet trying to replicate those viral posts.

> Apple at $2.5 million revenue per employee At $383B revenue in 2023, with 160k employees, Apple is a monster!

Other things that stand out

  1. OpenAI now on the low billions of revenue, and under 2k employees, also scores pretty high on the ratio. Ofc, they still have a long way to go relatively speaking.

  2. Naturally, software companies have much higher ratios, even if they vary significantly (Apple, Google, Microsoft).

  3. It's interesting to see similar ratios $0.3-0.4 million per employee for operations-heavy companies Amazon, Walmart, AAirlines.

  4. Companies that build mass-market goods like Coca-Cola, Nike also on similar ratios but more efficient (they outsource the distribution problem).

  5. Amex is a category on its own being a financial company, I'd expect a higher ratio.

Good fun on a spreadsheet!

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Humberto