"The company is also on track to pay out $500 million to content creators in 2019, pushing the company to surpass $1 billion in payouts since its inception in 2013.
Under the company's current business model, 90 percent of funds are paid directly to content creators. Patreon takes 5 percent, and the remaining 5 percent covers transaction fees."
$500 million * 0.05 is $25 million. How the fuck do you need $25 million a year to run a shitty website plus payment gateway? It's not even a real payment processor. The site is not youtube, it doesn't host videos or anything bandwidth heavy. Inefficient corporations with a shitload of overhead deserve to die, so that leaner operations can take their place.