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is Dropbox too big to be acquired (by Facebook)? Can this mean that they are going to?
by asadlionpk 7y ago
is Dropbox too big to be acquired (by Facebook)? Can this mean that they are going to?
- pottertheotter 7y agoThere's not much that is too big for a $582bn market cap company (with $55bn in cash and marketable securities) to acquire.
- slowdog 7y ago>is Dropbox too big to be acquired (by Facebook)? Facebook is big enough to acquire almost any company they want > Can this mean that they are going to? Put aside whether or not it makes sense to acquire dropbox. To me this looks like they will not since it could look like a conflict of interest to stockholders and therefore a breach of fiduciary duty. Drew would stand to make a ton of money at the cost to FB shareholders in a dropbox buyout and it's not necessarily to the shareholder's benefit If facebook wanted to buy dropbox, the safer play would be to buy dropbox, then add Drew to the board of directors
- fyp 7y agoI wonder if dropbox might have more photos data than facebook. People only share a small subset of all the photos they have taken and have backed up. I can see that being valuable. Otherwise I am not seeing why they would want to acquire them.
- est31 7y agoFacebook is in the ad and data selling business (although they of course insist on selling ads only, no data. don't believe them). People put tons of sensitive data into Dropbox backed up accounts like financial documents (financial plans, tax calculations, etc), medical letters, correspondence with employers, holiday plans, etc. Tons of entities would pay lots of money for access to that kind of data.
- Jamwinner 7y agoWould anyone like to explaon why they disagree here? I see this being greyed out without any rebuttal. This seems SOP for facebook lately.