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I interviewed with Dropbox before their IPO. It felt like an old company that everyone is coasting. I wonder how young companies get to that point so quickly?
by msoad 6y ago
I interviewed with Dropbox before their IPO. It felt like an old company that everyone is coasting. I wonder how young companies get to that point so quickly?
- raverbashing 6y agoBy not innovating in new products would be my guess. Dropbox is their product and? There's "Corporate Dropbox" and that's it?
- judge2020 6y agoThey should have gone all in on Dropbox Paper and building out an office suite to compete with GSuite and O365. Didn't happen.
- mschuster91 6y agoWhy? It's almost impossible to keep up with Microsoft (as LibreOffice shows), it's definitely impossible to write one from scratch.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoThis is a steep hill to climb. Microsoft is deeply entrenched in enterprises with .Net, Active Directory, SQL server, all that jazz (witness how fast Teams sped past Slack usage). It's easier for Microsoft to roll out storage than it is for Dropbox to become Microsoft or Google. Jobs was right, Dropbox is a feature, not a product.
- judge2020 6y agohttps://www.notion.so/ https://www.notion.so/ is a thing, so there's probably a market, but it would be extremely hard to pull off.
- manigandham 6y agoIt doesn't have to be another clone. For example Quip was acquired by Sales and there are tons of modern collaboration software tools like Airtable, Notion, Slack, etc. They could've created a suite that was tailored around that while leveraging their existing integrations with Office. Also people forget Box.com exists and does an even better job with corporate storage than Dropbox with much better features and UX.
- laddng 6y agoI wish they kept their Mailbox app as well - I really enjoyed using it (https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/8/9873268/why-dropbox-mailbox-shutdown https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/8/9873268/why-dropbox-mailb...)
- paxys 6y agoDropbox Paper itself was an acquisition.
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- ackbar03 6y agoI feel like a lot of the companies are the same way though. I mean AirBnB pretty much only ever has had 1 product.
- mrlala 6y agoI think that's a good thing though. The last thing I want is dropbox to 'innovate'. They are already trying too hard by forcing you to have windows explorer integration which slows the crap out of my machine. I am overall very happy with Dropbox and we use them because of what they are- a file syncing company. If they become more, it will surely be at the expense of simple file syncing which is all I want from them.
- hobby-coder-guy 6y agoOnce the product is built you don’t need as many people
- usaar333 6y agoThey stop growing. The ambitious people leave first when they realize growth is slowing. Ultimately, only the less ambitious are left.