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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mongoose_Matt" data-source="post: 9864891" data-attributes="member: 239">Something else to consider when putting companies in tiers...First, as Morrus said, revenue is not profit (revenue is vanity, profit is sanity). If you see a company relying on licenced products, you can knock off 10% from their revenue straight away.Second, see if you can find out how many staff they employ. Some of the companies mentioned, I know, have truly eye-watering monthly salary bills. The reason Mongoose can do the cool things is that our core running costs are low, and we have a smaller headcount than usual - all our admin, for example, is either automated or gets spread around the creatives (when you mail customer service, you are talking to one of the designers or graphic artists <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).We do that because the salary of the extra one or two admin people a place of our size would normally employ gets spread around everyone else.Once you start getting about the 25-30 mark for number of employees and you are not selling as many books as Paizo or WotC, it is kind of like being strapped to the front of a speeding train (speaking from experience) to the point you must release something every month or sink.And I don't know, I never found that much fun. It is a very easy trap to fall into though because running a company has a lot in common with gaming (all about the min/maxing <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />). It is easy to get diverted and forget why you are doing this in the first place.As I say, vanity and sanity. Revenue is not a great measurement of company health, or even position in the market if things are not sustained.</blockquote>

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