[dalbasal]

So...

Bodybuilders do this thing called "bulking and cutting." The best way to add muscle fast is to overeat. Work out lots. Sleep lots. Eat lots.

You get fat, but you also get muscular because food is never a limiting factor.

Then, they lose the extra fat with a crash diet.

Google, FB and such are such money machines that they never have to cut. They can just bulk. The others... they want some of that rapid growth potential too, but can't afford to add fat forever.

Corporate bulking and cutting.

[righthand]

But Google and Facebook did cut earlier this year?

[zeroonetwothree]

This analogy doesn’t seem to add any explanatory power.

Corporations can’t magically know the optimal number of employees to maximize profits. And even if they could this will change over time. So we should expect them to cut when they have too many and hire when they have too few.

[ssnistfajen]

>Google, FB and such are such money machines that they never have to cut.

Not sure what you are trying to achieve by saying something so blatantly untrue that a two-word query into any search engine can debunk it as fast as your browser loads a web page.

[blehn]

What "muscle" did spotify add? Not sure the metaphor works. It's bloat from bad management and copying what other companies are doing.

[thomastjeffery]

There is only so much metaphorical food in the world.