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weinzierl
on Feb 21, 2018
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> Over the lifetime of the project, there have only been an average of 2.3 full-time software developers, and the entire Signal team has never been more than 7 people.
This is awesome. Amazing what an excellent small team can build.
tomc1985
on Feb 21, 2018
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Don't tell SV!
spullara
on Feb 21, 2018
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When WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $19B they only had a little over 50 people.
TremendousJudge
on Feb 21, 2018
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is it known how many of those 50 were devs?
mtmail
on Feb 21, 2018
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"When WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $19 billion, the popular messaging app had about 35 engineers and 450 million users."
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-f8-whatsapp-engineer...
tomc1985
on Feb 22, 2018
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35 still seems high to me
sitepodmatt
on Feb 22, 2018
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You forgot the /s
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This is awesome. Amazing what an excellent small team can build.