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Good for them, I gladly pay the yearly fee for their service. Haven't had as much reliability with any other cloud storage service.
I wish I could pay them more for more that 1tb storage. I have a ton of raw files and years of images I'd be happy to back up there instead of using Backblaze or S3 etc.
Here is the original Dropbox YC application from 2007: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/dropbox/
> File-sharing giant Dropbox has signed the biggest lease in San Francisco history, an agreement for 736,000 square feet, the entirety of a new office complex under construction in the southwest corner of Mission Bay. [...] The space will represent an expansion for Dropbox, which occupies 182,000 square feet at 333 Brannan St., a building Kilroy also owns, as well as 115,000 square feet at 345 Brannan. Dropbox curren…
Servers?
This is just a file sync. A good one. But 1500 employees for that? This goes way beyond my imagination.
There’s a ton of stuff around that though. Tens of thousands of paying customers need support. Credit card teams. Data center guys. Guys to right deployment tools. Security guys to monitor the credit card system. Hacking together a proof of concept is simple, running a big business is complicated.
This part really was highlighted to me when I contacted support over a bug. They linked me to an introduction to Dropbox which was kind of offensive since I've been a user for 8 years and they completely ignored the bug report it seems :-(
I guess it hadn't registered in my brain that a company with as many users as they do has customer service not unlike a larger Acme Co. tech support desk.
Naive question, but why would large companies favor leasing instead of just outright purchasing the property? It seems that when the terms of the lease are up, the leasing company has almost unlimited leverage in the next negotiation (unless the tenant company doesn't mind relocating all of its employees).
1) managing an office building is a lot of hassle. 2) startups are always growing or shrinking. no point putting so much significant capital unless it is an established in for a long haul at a location where talent is surplus. 3) if you indeed have that much capital, you can pretty much dictate what you want and get some tax benefits (amazon, second HQ) or work with a city build a new building suitable for your long-…
(Dang, I was just joking, but then, "NSA document indicates that it is planning to add Dropbox as a PRISM provider": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants... )
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Servers?
No, you don't put servers in office space. The infrastructure requirements are drastically different.
Naive question, but why would large companies favor leasing instead of just outright purchasing the property? It seems that when the terms of the lease are up, the leasing company has almost unlimited leverage in the next negotiation (unless the tenant company doesn't mind relocating all of its employees).
Target is a good example of this. It's a $32B company that owns $24B of real estate.
This is tangential, and I'm not a designer so this is just one dev's opinion, but I found Dropbox's latest rebrand (dropbox.design) to be a bizarre departure for them. It was so off the wall I just assumed it was some sort of parody site until I realized it was official. I'm in no place to determine if it's "good" or "bad", but it's certainly an...interesting direction, if nothing else.
Here is the original Dropbox YC application from 2007: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/dropbox/