Neither Jolla nor Valve are small companies, 200 and 350 (ish) employees respectively. But company size has nothing to do with revenue or profit, it’s literally just people on the payroll and a cutoff of your choosing.
I don’t think it’s really fare to compare the distribution capabilities of a hardware company vs a software/service company, though. And doesn’t this hiring kind of imply they’re expanding their hardware side?
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
From employee count they both would easily fit the legal US definition of a small business, as that’s usually 500 or fewer, but can be as high as 1500 in some industries, depends what they’d be classified as
VAK@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Whoa, I think in many other countries it’s small upto 50. 500 feels so high - the ceo wouldn’t even know everyone.
glimse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was being vague about the cutoff because Jolla isn’t in the US and I didn’t want to look up every country’s definition lol