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unshift on April 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s secret perk? A private hackerspace

transitioning? they've had over 20,000 employees for a few years now. you cease to be a startup after you've started up. for them that probably happened around 1998-2000.

ja27 on April 28, 2011 [–]

IBM has 426,000. AT&T has 294,000. GE has 287,000. Those are big companies at least in the tech community.

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