Why is a 300k mrr company (his tiwtter bio) running on raleway?

300K ARR means you get 300K in annual recurring revenue.

Subtract costs for employees. Which, given current economy and inflation, that gets you a founder scraping on their savings, one or two other people (remember that if you're paying someone unless it's totally offshored through a house which has it's own inflation, you have other factors) and then your own taxes... yeah... much more than that and you are in the black.

As a general factor I keep in mind, when I worked at a 'normal' but toxic place before I was an actual software engineer, my manager's rules were something like '40 percent L2R' (might have been lower) for in-house employees and 70- 80% L2R for contractors.

IOW, for every dollar billed for an actual employee, we paid the employee 40 cents. For every dollar billed for a contractor, we paid them 70-80 cents.

I've heard similar figures from others (e.x. 'in house employee has a real cost of 1.5-2x their actual pay').

And yes it sucks and yes the structure at least here in the US is a factor.

You may think that sounds like a very nice salary but $4MM annual gross is a very small business. I can’t imagine how Railway would be in business if that were considered a large customer.

Lots of companies run on railway

Why not?

Why are you even commenting? And it's Railway not raleway.