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I was lucky enough to work at Dropbox for a bit. Awesome engineering culture and such good people. Got to even grab a beer and rip karaoke with Drew. Thanks for
by jlarks32 4mo ago
I was lucky enough to work at Dropbox for a bit. Awesome engineering culture and such good people. Got to even grab a beer and rip karaoke with Drew. Thanks for creating such an awesome working environment Drew. I cannot say thank you enough for those memories or that experience. By far the best CEO and leader I've seen.
- Obscurity4340 4mo agoWhat is Dropbox's attitude towards things like Cryptamator? Do they want things like this to supplement and thus complement their unencrypted puic default?
- 4er_transform 4mo ago[flagged]
- thereitgoes456 4mo agoMany people worked for FTX, loved SBF and would have said he was a great leader too. People will love anyone who is good to them.
- josephg 4mo agoAnd for good reason. Leadership isn't measured by stock price.
- KptMarchewa 4mo agoI've must have missed where Dropbox's CEO committed securities fraud.
- Sammi 4mo agoI'm surprised they've been able to keep the stock price and the revenue flat given they competitive environment they've been in for many years. They've been going head to head with the cloud infrastructure hyperscalers and mobile platform owners despite just being a file storage SaaS. It's weird to me that people ever expected more of Dropbox given who they were up against.
- sudo_cowsay 4mo agodropbox vs drive???
- ubercore 4mo agoYes, this is one of the most ineffective parts of public trading. It's impossible to say what the leadership here would have done without such _wild_ changes in the surrounding environment. While I understand the argument that in the end it doesn't matter, companies should find the way to succeed regardless, I think it causes a lot of good leadership to be lost, or a lot of bad decisions leading to local minima.
- willsmith72 4mo agothe knock on them is exactly that, 20 years later they're just a file storage saas. the idea was they must be able to expand the surface area over time
- panta 4mo agoI've been a paying customer since their early days. Their value, at least in my view, lies precisely in that they are just a file storage SaaS. They are focused on doing one thing and doing it well. The day this will change they'll lose me as a customer.
- willsmith72 4mo agothat's fine, to me it should be fine for companies to exist like that but it doesn't match the archetype of a "growth" company. to the commenters talking about the share price, if you want a consistently growing stock, that's not the way to do it (not saying it's right or wrong)
- pipes 4mo agoI thought they already kinda did. The UI has a load of features I am not interested in. I spent hours turning of the sync on opening file feature they have, can't recall the name of it now. But to turn it off was a ridiculous effort of web searches and lying documentation.
- jamesnorden 4mo agoFound the shareholder.
- geodel 4mo agoLOL, if shareholders are so terrible why do companies go public in first place.
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- goolz 4mo agoWhat a bleak worldview. You are right from the perspective of an avaricious dragon.
- biinjo 4mo agoA happy company culture sounds like an excellent result from a great leader. If stock owners want more ROI come do the work instead of setting demands. (i know that’s unfortunately not how the world works).
- harpiaharpyja 4mo agoAs a customer of DropBox since ~2011 I would say they've been an outstanding success. Maybe it's time we redefine what success means.