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Billion-dollar companies with hardly any staff

The small teams behind big money business
Wayfair: 12,124 employees
Western Union: 12,000 employees
Twitter: 4,300 employees
DocuSign: 2,255 employees
Compass: 2,200 employees
Stripe: 2,000+ employees
Slack Technologies: 1,664 employees
Automattic: 1,167 employees
Glovo: 1,000+ employees
Tanium: 1,000+ employees
Robinhood: 908 employees
Bird: 860 employees
CarGurus: 732 employees
Monzo: 713 employees
Quora: 700-800 employees
Instagram: 700 employees
Credit Karma: 700 employees
Ethereum: 305 employees
IOTA: 100 employees
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The small teams behind big money business

Thanks to technology, nowadays a company needn't boast lots of employees or a large office space to make a lot of money. In fact, a whole host of firms, new and sometimes old, have relatively tiny staff numbers yet are now worth more than some major multinationals. Click or scroll through to take a look at the billion-dollar businesses that have surprisingly few employees.

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lovemoney staff

07 February 2020

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