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How Dropbox is printing money
- michael_dorfman 16y agoThat's a really bizarre analysis. I am sure that Dropbox is able to squeeze some extra efficiency out of their storage requirements by storing only one copy of very frequently stored files, but it is a long way from there to "printing money legally." Plus, I doubt that anybody on Dropbox is maxing out their storage, much less everybody; any analysis based on that assumption is doomed to failure.
- billycao 16y agoI agree, I highly doubt that the percentage of storage that is non-unique is enough to increase Dropbox's profit margins significantly. I'm certain they use this and several other techniques such that each user reflects a far less impact on Dropbox's storage than the 50GB bought, but if that's printing money than Amazon would be a first world country by now.
- est 16y agoGmail is also printing money. Check your email box, about 80% mail are mass delivered, maillists, notifications, etc. Gmail has to only store one copy
- rick888 16y agoAnyone that sells software is printing money. You build one copy and then sell it over and over.