Facebook Employee Scale Question
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Sam Parr shares a story about his father-in-law's reaction to learning about Facebook's employee count.
"I remember years ago, 10+ years ago, my wife worked at Facebook and she was telling her father about working at Facebook. I think my wife worked there starting when there was 6 or 9,000 people. My father-in-law was like 'Why do you need 9,000 people to run a website? Why do you need 9,000 people for a web page? What do all those people do?'"
Sam uses this story to draw a parallel to understanding why MrBeast needs hundreds of employees, explaining that it's because he's essentially running a movie studio for social media rather than just making videos.
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.