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> Google had a working search engine and they were building their own hardware with less than 100 employees. But now Google has over 20,000 employees and is st
by dabent 15y ago
> Google had a working search engine and they were building their own hardware with less than 100 employees.
But now Google has over 20,000 employees and is still hiring. It's possible that Dropbox is building on its core product and developing entirely new products to amaze us and entice dollars out of our wallets.
- cfgvjkljhgfb 15y agoExcept Google build and run some of the largest datacenters in the world. Dropbox uses Amazon S3 - the whole point of being a hip and trendy web2.0 cloud service is that all you need is a web designer an SEO expert and a PR firm In addition renting a large expensive trendy building in the middle of an expensive trendy city seems to suggest a certain lack of hip-and-trendy web2.0 cloud thinking. ING (the online only bank) has started clearing it's people out of expensive city center office blocks to work remotely and (very profitably) renting the space to hip-and-trendy web2.0 startups