At this rate, the number of Google employees will increase to Yahoo! in 2007. Beyond, and even more than Microsoft in 2010

It's a very optimistic and straightforward calculation, but when it comes to that. It means that it is growing so rapidly.

Above all, the problem is each company, Microsoft, Yahoo! , If you measure the value of each Google employee by the corporate value and convert it,

・ Microsoft: $ 4.3 million
・ Yahoo! : $ 4.7 million
・ Google: $ 19 million

It will be.

Gabor's Blog: Timeline: Employee Headcounts for Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft
http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2006/02/timeline-employee-headcounts-for.html

This graph shows changes in the number of employees of each company from 1976 to the present of 2006. With this, Microsoft is Yahoo! in terms of the number of employees. 6 times that of Google, 11 times that of Google! Big! Where is the 'micro' ...?

Expanding Google and Yahoo since 1996

Over the last two years, Google's growth rate has averaged 100%, Yahoo's 34%, and Microsoft's 10% when compared by number of employees. If this growth rate continues, Google's number of employees will be Yahoo! in 2007. In 2010, it will surpass Microsoft.

Actually, we can't expect that much growth, no matter how much ...

To easily increase the number of employees, you can quickly acquire another company.

For example, Yahoo gained 1,000 people in 2003 as a result of its acquisition of Overture to enter the advertising space.

So, if this goes on, when will Google's cafeteria go bankrupt?