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Guido van Rossum (Python BDFL) himself works for Dropbox, so I'm not sure I believe that... See also: https://www.dropbox.com/s/83ppa5iykqmr14z/Py2v3Hackers201

• DasIch 10y ago
  He does but how much influence does he really have there? I doubt it's enough to push them to 3.x just because. Pyston 0.5, the interpreter developed at Dropbox, was also just released a few days ago. They're going to do what's pragmatic and cost efficient. Making everyone stop improving the product and porting the code base, is probably more expensive than just having one team maintaining and improving the interpreter.