Brave has about 300 employees and don’t break out engineers [0]. One of them is Brandon Eich so that counts for a bunch.

Their revenue is only $52M so kinda what Mozilla would earn off their endowment.

[0] https://getlatka.com/companies/brave.com

Latka are not reliable. And you assumed Brave were profitable?

Brave make a Chromium fork and a search engine. Does a search engine or a web browser engine require more people?

Brave doesn't make their own browser engine.