Tech Companies Going Public Aren’t Getting More Employees, They’re Just Getting Bigger Valuations

Recently, public tech companies have gotten bigger in terms of valuation, but not so much in terms of staff size.

That’s the broad conclusion from our latest Crunchbase News analysis of employee totals at venture-backed companies that went public in the past several months. The findings showed a dramatic change from a little over two years ago, when we last looked at the intersection of valuation and staff size, or valuation-per-employee. READ MORE