<Semi-Related Anecdote> I remember a friend of mine was working at Dropbox as an intern when they were only a few hundred employees, and we would tell me storie

<Semi-Related Anecdote> I remember a friend of mine was working at Dropbox as an intern when they were only a few hundred employees, and we would tell me stories of these "R&D" brainstorm sessions - unofficial meetings where they would just spitball crazy ideas on where the industry was going or new product ideas, and collect them for future hackathons and the like (the best ones I'm guessing got put into the actual product roadmap.) My favorite idea he mentioned was this assertion that the industry was moving towards a "cloud-within-a-cloud", or "a cloud of clouds." We both laughed for a good few minutes over how silly Silicon Valley terminology could sound sometimes. Turns out this mysterious person was ahead of their time...</Semi-Related Anecdote>