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To: umbro who wrote (25283)	11/9/1998 10:38:00 PM
From: Jan Crawley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

employee: oh, just a million/two, it is 5% of what I'm worth on the open market. Neat!!! here goes the open market.

To: umbro who wrote (25283)	11/9/1998 10:42:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

AMZN 6330 614 10.3 Gary, I know AMZN has 1400 employees now but who is counting anymore. Thank you for the numbers:-) Glenn

To: umbro who wrote (25283)	11/10/1998 12:47:00 AM
From: umbro	Respond to of 164684

Sales Per-Employee Same list, with Sales and Sales/Employee columns added (for sales, I used trailing 12 months per Marketguide) Mkt cap #Emp. Mkt. Cap/Emp. Sales Sales/Emp. Price/Sales AMZN 6330 614 10.3 423 0.7 15 EBAY 4093 76 53.8 73 1.0 56 YHOO 14200 336 42.2 150 0.4 94 INKT 2490 89 27.9 20 0.2 150 EGGS 278 1310 0.2 238 0.2 1 AOL 32760 8500 3.9 2940 0.3 11 MSPG 1362 497 2.7 92 0.2 15 KTEL 96 189 0.5 86 0.5 1 BCST 974 191 5.0 14 0.1 69 GCTY 1149 152 7.6 13 0.1 88 CMGI 1710 1024 1.7 92 0.1 19 MSFT 275000 27055 10.1 15300 0.6 18 NSCP 2890 2300 1.3 400 0.2 7 - in the previous note, I made a mistake in entering Microsoft's valuation: its 275 Bil., not 27.5 Bil. as entered. This pushed the mkt. cap/employee figure up to $10.1 mil. - the use of traling 12 months sales figures may over-state current price-to-sales ratios by a factor of two or more. However, some of the companies above would be considered overvalued (or extremely richly valued) even if the Price/Sales ratio were divide by 10 (YHOO, INKT, GCTY, and BCST for example) - the sales/employee figures are obviosly comparing productivity in wildly different businesses. Microsoft probably pays more per employee than Amazon, but on the other hand Amazon's margins (even those estimated by analysts for the year 2003) are much lower than Microsoft's. Therefore it wouldn't be surprising that Amazon has to have rather high sales/employee figures to turn (eventuallY) turn a profit.