I think it’s very high leverage. 100 FTEs per vendor times four vendors times $250k (averaging across the world) is $100 million.
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100 FTEs? :-D
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Lol @ 100 FTEs.
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$40MM
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Yeah, that was a wild stab. Looks like the Mozilla Foundation burns through a little under 500MM so I'm going to guess less than $2B overall.
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Just the browser and it’s underlying technology? My back-of-the-envelope guess is $1B-$2B.
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You can look at historical annual reports for Moz and see $400M-$500M of income. Some of that is banked, much of it is spent on browser development. Edge is about the same size, Chrome is bigger. There’s a long tail of investment in Opera, Samsung, other regional browsers.
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One question is whether we count marketing/user acquisition payments.
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Yeah. Clearly my methodology (such as it is) is using fully-loaded numbers, including thinks like HR and marketing. This does complicate apples-to-apples comparisons, though. E.g., Moz never ran a TV ad during the Super Bowl.
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It would be really interesting to compare the platform development to economic value ratio. Eg. Apple likes to talk about the $10B developers have made on iOS, but I'd bet the web is orders of magnitude more with similar total platform to iOS...
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I'd guess a couple billion USD per year (i.e. pocket change for the entire e-commerce and advertising economy it supports).
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Wouldn't surprise me if the number was in billions.
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I feel reasonably close to being right within an order of magnitude and will say "10s of billions" assuming I interpreted your question as broad as you meant it to be.
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One order less seems doable, less than 1B seems unlikely.
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