I would like to know this too! Say my team has 40 people on it. Every month at least, someone asks what do "40 people do?" and I take them through it 2-4 people at a time across several lines of business maintaining and improving lots of software.
Would be amazing to see some people break down their teams publicly!
Pandora acquired Ticketfly and The Next Big Sound a couple of years back so they're not just a music streaming company. I still can't tell you what they all do though!
I haven't looked at Pandora in a few years, but IIRC they were a lot like Groupon in that they had a huge sales force catering to local businesses - the type that would traditionally advertise on local radio stations.
It didn't look like a 2000 person company when I went to their office. They do a lot of random platform integrations / clients & testing themselves, which probably increases the engineering team size a bit.
No clue. But the answer to your question is being a public company. Market participants generally expect publicly traded companies (above a certain market cap) to have lots of employees.
Once you are a public company, you need a robust finance, accounting, and HR infrastructure, along with orgs like investor relations. Plus selling ads is tough. You need a large salesforce to constantly call people and try to sell them, you need account managers to manage relationship with the big advertisers. Now spread these people globally, you are selling different ads in different geographies. In addition, now you need ad operations to track metrics, report on it, and share revenue. This is even before you get into product and engineering.
Thank you for looking this up. I found the use of a percentage in the title very strange, why not just state the number of employees or "150/2200" employees or "150 employees (7%)". It could have been 7 people in total.
