It'd be really educational if you can roughly share how you scaled the company employee-wise over time? ie. when did you you go from 1 to 10 to 100 to 500 to 1,000 employees?
Very organic ... 5 after first year, 100 by 4th, 350 by 7th, 1000 by 13. Steady stream of recruiting over time, no huge bump, except in year 2000, when our revenue tripled, thanks to that bubble. But even in that year our headcount did not keep up with revenue - we simply weren't set up to recruit like that. So that was a very stressful year. Then we had many years of stagnation, as the bubble burst and we had to find new things to do. Zoho eventually came out of that period of stagnation and misery.
