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counterpoint: Dropbox is a great product, clever tech, insightful marketing etc. Even the YC application was great. And I think there's a large market (even its
by 6ren 16y ago
counterpoint: Dropbox is a great product, clever tech, insightful marketing etc. Even the YC application was great. And I think there's a large market (even its present size is more than enough to sate my own avarice), but... it doesn't seem that it could become a truly huge company (like Xerox, Google), without launching a series of increasingly unrelated products. Though perhaps that's true of many huge companies (e.g. Apple, Sony, HP - even Microsoft has Office).
- lemon_pie 16y agopossibly. that said, 100m in revenue 4 years after launch with a fairly unbounded market (every consumer), looks like quite the promising start.
- 6ren 16y ago> Benioff predicts sales could hit $100 million this year. (The company declined to comment.) Unfortunately, a prediction; and also by someone not privy to actual figures... > Dropbox reportedly experiences well over 10 times year-over-year growth... Sounds pretty good! > ...and positive cash flow. The mildest expression of profitability possible. Though I'm pretty sure they're doing way better than >0. From scanning many acquisitions, my feeling is of the order of $200 million. Though I'm basing that mainly on business acquisition (e.g. by Oracle), so I might be very off for consumer acquisitions (considering youtube, facebook, twitter etc).
- wlievens 16y agoWith their kind of scalability, any positive cash flow is awesome news.
- rakkhi 16y agoAll the applications that have been built on top of Dropbox like this: http://frenzyapp.com/ http://frenzyapp.com/ and this: http://droppages.com/Getting+started http://droppages.com/Getting+started If they get fees from these apps when they monetise they become a platform or a framework, then the sky is the limit App directory: https://www.dropbox.com/apps https://www.dropbox.com/apps