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Funny you'd mention the 50 employee threshold. I was just looking for a chart showing the number of companies with n employees.

I expected to find a chart that overall looked like exponential decay, a huge number of 1 and 2 employee sole proprietorships, a big pile of 3-10, a smaller pile of 20 something, tapering down to a very few mega-employers.

What I wanted to see was how bad the pile-up was at 49.

Alas, I couldn't find such a chart.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’ve done a lot of Total Available Market analysis using data from Hoovers down to 500 employees, but not below. It is certainly an inverse exponential function from 500 to 500,000. I’m sure it’s the same from 1-2 up to 500 as you suggest. Fractal behavior.

You can be sure there is going to be huge discontinuity at 50 - 75 now.