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Eng team of 1,500 then, revenue of $1.4m per head



> Eng team of 1,500 then

Not quite. 1500 people in "Engineering, product development, and customer success", so not just engineering.


Right, so maybe 750 developers? If that? Some companies are heaver on product and customer success headcount than others, but I would not be shocked to find out they had quite a few less than 1000 developers and developer managers.


That's 300 5-person teams, seems like still a lot.


all the heads create value


That is still mind blowing.

1500 developers for a click to sign platform? Competitors have done it with 1% of that or less.


I've been impressed by Docusign the few times I've had to use it. And I generally hate 95% of the software I come across. Everything seemed to snap into place, was perfectly intuitive. That stuff is easy to get wrong, as evidenced by all the crap out there.


It's not managed to annoy me, which is quite impressive. I never really considered Docusign anything special for usability, until your comment, but that's because it gets out of your road enough not to notice it.


And to their credit, I've been able to sign documents on Linux via Firefox without hassle. Half the time, some shitty SaaS apps will just sniff my user agent and block me.


And it may be worth noting that the alternative is often to go physically into an office someplace or get various notorizations or Medallion Signatures through your bank.


I was suspicious of the legality when I first got asked to sign, but I assume a legal team makes up a part of such a large workforce.


They do substantially more than the click-to-sign part. ID verification, contract management system, electronic notarization, APIs for automation of the whole thing, mobile apps...


Competitors have also done it with 1% of their revenue or less.




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