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It's amusing to see "but it wasn't enough I guess" in relation to a profitable $10 billion company with 3,000 employees. That's a pretty good outcome!
by mikeyouse 3y ago
It's amusing to see "but it wasn't enough I guess" in relation to a profitable $10 billion company with 3,000 employees. That's a pretty good outcome!
- solardev 3y agoTrue! It's still a useful product, but the pressure to keep getting huge-r is always there I guess. I knew someone who worked there and they seemed pretty desperate for new initiatives (like the failed Paper). Most of their competitors have online storage as part of their product portfolio. I don't know of anything else major that Dropbox does...
- eastbound 3y agoWell, it’s relevant: Atlassian launched a paid issue tracker in 2003 when the open-source Mantis was all the rage. There is always room for a smooth paid service compared to the rough free one. Android and Linux vs twice-more-expensive Apple.