> is everything going to be measured by WhatsApp now?
Since when are we responsible for other's misuse of an example or metaphor?
Whatsapp was less than 50 employees when it was bought, restrictive french laws kick in when you reach 50 employees. This means that does those constrains actually don't affect you when your business is taking off. It looks like a valid remark to me.
> Is he saying that a French startup can easily be a $19B company while still being exempt from the employment laws?
It looks like it. Whatsapp wasn't making $19B, it was sold $19B.
Besides, when you reach 50 employees I don't think you can be considered a startup anymore.
The interesting question with regard to this french bashing is: why do You even care? Are they threatening You in some way?
"Whatsapp was less than 50 employees when it was bought, restrictive french laws kick in when you reach 50 employees. This means that does those constrains actually don't affect you when your business is taking off. It looks like a valid remark to me."
No, all it means is that those constraints wouldn't have affected WhatsApp when their business is taking off. To extrapolate it beyond WhatsApp you have to assume that WhatsApp was somehow representative, when it was clearly a gigantic outlier.
Since when are we responsible for other's misuse of an example or metaphor?
Whatsapp was less than 50 employees when it was bought, restrictive french laws kick in when you reach 50 employees. This means that does those constrains actually don't affect you when your business is taking off. It looks like a valid remark to me.
> Is he saying that a French startup can easily be a $19B company while still being exempt from the employment laws?
It looks like it. Whatsapp wasn't making $19B, it was sold $19B.
Besides, when you reach 50 employees I don't think you can be considered a startup anymore.
The interesting question with regard to this french bashing is: why do You even care? Are they threatening You in some way?