Just how large is Elektron?

Nils · 2014-05-28T06:37:48.000Z

They used to be five or six employees for many years, up until the Octatrack launch. Back when Daniel Hansson was CEO they were only five I think.

There must be more people working there now. Maybe 10-12? I have no idea really.

Accent · 2014-05-28T08:03:36.000Z

Yeah, I think 50 is way too high actually. My first thought was around 12-15, but that seemed too low.

Barfunkel · 2014-05-28T08:08:38.000Z

50 seems very high. They’d have to sell an insane amount of units to be able to pay so many workers. I doubt expensive, specialist hardware machines sell hundreds of units a month.

analogback · 2014-05-28T08:17:15.000Z

time to buy some shares before they take over the world

BLOKE · 2014-05-28T08:52:36.000Z

Its actually now just Dataline and a number of cunning disguises…

nightfade · 2014-05-28T10:06:43.000Z

The internet suggests 16 employees for 2012/13.

t · 2014-05-28T10:28:35.000Z

It can’t be anything but a rather small business.

Also, please keep in mind that “just hiring more people” does not solve any immediate capacity problems. You have to spend a significant amount of time training and supporting new people before they actually turn into productive employees. Being busy because of the new product you’re just started to sell is the worst time possible to bring in new hires; doing so would just delay things even more.

xmit · 2014-05-28T10:36:22.000Z

Have you counted Hector ?

TrabanT · 2014-05-28T14:51:14.000Z

fantastic thread! … i started a thread some time ago, asking about detailed info on elektrons profits and so on … found out nothing, nada, niete, zero, null …

so, i had contact with 3 different names from support yet, i know there is dataline and jon. … and I know hektor from the video, makes 6 people on my count alone

there is this video ( joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCdlTilrp5k ) … fuck and the other !!! video where they interview guys from the company, I think it was from future music magazine, but I cant seem to find the youtube video EDIT there it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQcZObUK-Y0

… so if you look at the retailer list of the elektron homepage and we assume each shop has 10 - 20 units in stock then I seriously doubt the Swedish company could pull that off with a workforce of below 100 … marketing, taxes, production, HR, law, repairs, production, stakeholders, raw materials, jeeeee … seriously … investors, what not …

I would love to find out more, or buy the company shares … but they dont have stocks?

void · 2014-05-28T14:54:06.000Z

you are buying company shares by buying their products

Scannari · 2014-05-28T15:01:14.000Z

""TrabanT"":

fantastic thread! … i started a thread some time ago, asking about detailed info on elektrons profits and so on … found out nothing, nada, niete, zero, null …

so, i had contact with 3 different names from support yet, i know there is dataline and jon. … and I know hektor from the video, makes 6 people on my count alone

there is this video ( joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCdlTilrp5k ) … fuck and the other !!! video where they interview guys from the company, I think it was from future music magazine, but I cant seem to find the youtube video

… so if you look at the retailer list of the elektron homepage and we assume each shop has 10 - 20 units in stock then I seriously doubt the Swedish company could pull that off with a workforce of below 100 … marketing, taxes, production, HR, law, repairs, production, stakeholders, raw materials, jeeeee … seriously … investors, what not …

I would love to find out more, or buy the company shares … but they dont have stocks?

Is this the droids you are looking for?

http://www.justmusicmakers.com/the-man-from-the-elektron-world/

snowcrash · 2014-05-28T15:09:05.000Z

I guess Elektron does what all companies do: outsource certain tasks to keep the internal headcount low.

Also don’t forget in europe you can get business development money from the state and Elektron is quite the successful showpiece when it comes to creative industries.

Though at their current size and history I’d say there definitely are private investors involved.

But who knows? There are a couple of ways to run a company, each one has their own strategy and Elektron seems to be on the rise.

xmit · 2014-05-28T15:25:26.000Z

in dealing with my faulty AR I’ve already had correspondance with Ufuk, Olle & now Phillip. Whether these are all in-house Elektron bods or not I know not.
Service has been great though

TrabanT · 2014-05-28T16:32:41.000Z

""Scannari"":

[quote=“TrabanT”]fantastic thread! … i started a thread some time ago, asking about detailed info on elektrons profits and so on … found out nothing, nada, niete, zero, null …

so, i had contact with 3 different names from support yet, i know there is dataline and jon. … and I know hektor from the video, makes 6 people on my count alone

there is this video ( joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCdlTilrp5k ) … fuck and the other !!! video where they interview guys from the company, I think it was from future music magazine, but I cant seem to find the youtube video

… so if you look at the retailer list of the elektron homepage and we assume each shop has 10 - 20 units in stock then I seriously doubt the Swedish company could pull that off with a workforce of below 100 … marketing, taxes, production, HR, law, repairs, production, stakeholders, raw materials, jeeeee … seriously … investors, what not …

I would love to find out more, or buy the company shares … but they dont have stocks?

Is this the droids you are looking for?

http://www.justmusicmakers.com/the-man-from-the-elektron-world/[/quote]
edited the 1st post from me … see above … thanks for the post (boy i hate german accent / i know i am also german)

credo · 2014-05-28T16:45:58.000Z

This page says they were 16 employees at the end of 2013.
Profit was almost 100 K €
Turnover was 3,8 milj €

TrabanT · 2014-05-28T17:35:56.000Z

anybody wants to chip in and buy the annual report of 2013`?

http://www.allabolag.se/5567138093/arsredovisning

chrome translates this page to english for me …

i know a (kick ass) financial guy (or 2) who could give me / us a professional analysis of these figures

Low_Life · 2014-05-28T17:36:45.000Z

""credo"":

This page says they were 16 employees at the end of 2013.
Profit was almost 100 K €
Turnover was 3,8 milj €

A-ha! All their secrets are revealed

TrabanT · 2014-05-28T17:46:43.000Z

that doesnt mean they work with a time employment company and have 100 dwarfs / Borg muscle hired who get those magic ingredients from other universes to implement in their machines

PlayRecords · 2014-05-28T17:55:03.000Z

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Its actually now just Dataline and a number of cunning disguises…
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Petur · 2014-05-28T19:24:02.000Z

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