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I appreciate the tone. That aside, you are assuming growth is constrained in some way that money relieves. IE they need money to promote or they need money to
by netcan 17y ago
I appreciate the tone.
That aside, you are assuming growth is constrained in some way that money relieves. IE they need money to promote or they need money to support their free users until they mature into premium users. Either one of those is a sufficient answer.
- mattmaroon 17y agoWhat he's saying is that perhaps Dropbox can buy a user for $1 (via adsense, whatever) and make $2 off them. In that case, it makes sense to take all the money you can and plow it into customer acquisition. At some point the law of big numbers becomes a limiting factor, but probably not at any point that would make it unwise to take $7m.
- uuilly 17y agoNot to mention that there is a lot more that can be done in that space from an engineering perspective. Files syncing could be just the beginning. What about consumer MVC from files to web services? Edit a photo on iphoto and it automatically changes on every service that uses it. The "data keeper" role is like an octopus, big in the middle, tentacles everywhere. I could imagine a world where that role becomes as important if not more than the OS / services.