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Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by vidoc »

texuf wrote: post #29
vidoc wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I-280 is turned into a surface-level boulevard (like Octavia). You meant a parking lot, didn't you ? :D

Octavia is quite nice and traffic flows through there pretty well.

I actually have to admit I am honestly not qualified to say whether the traffic on Octavia worsened after the redesign! I guess this is my subconscious tricking me there, since the redesigned Octavia, looks a lot like redesigned Chavez, which in fact has bike lanes, trees, and all, but became a parking lot !

Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by BadassFractal »

sp332 wrote: post #81
BadassFractal wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://www.dropbox.com/plans You might want to check "billed monthly" at the bottom.

Not sure I'm following.

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Post by awad »

Inevitably, someone will make a comment about how Dropbox is overstaffed and could do this with ~10 employees since 'they just sync files'. To save you the trouble, consider that they also need to hire support, sales, marketing, and operations staff beyond the engineers and designers it takes to keep the product(s) running, especially as they shift into an enterprise-focused business.

Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by Spooky23 »

Xcelerate wrote: post #30

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).

Operational expenses are deductible for tax purposes. Durable assets need to be depreciated.

Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by praneshp »

jonknee wrote: post #26

Here's the gallery of renderings... Not exactly an architectural masterpiece. http://theexchangesf.com/gallery/

(Dropbox employee, no connection to the move)

Why should it be one? Wouldn't you pay less to be in a functional building instead? I know that choice means that SF will never be a Chicago, but that ship has long sailed, no?

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Post by tedmiston »

awad wrote: post #113

Inevitably, someone will make a comment about how Dropbox is overstaffed and could do this with ~10 employees since 'they just sync files'. To save you the trouble, consider that they also need to hire support, sales, marketing, and operations staff beyond the engineers and designers it takes to keep the product(s) running, especially as they shift into an enterprise-focused business.

While we do hear this a lot — "rsync has been around for 20 years" "I could write that in a weekend" etc etc — it's easy to forget about all the work Dropbox is doing on top of their file system, like building Paper as a competitor to Google Docs.

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Post by simcop2387 »

alexnewman wrote: post #102
simcop2387 wrote: post #64

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Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive have no official linux clients.

Uhm, I don't think google drive needs a linux client. It's not syncing right?

It is in windows, https://www.google.com/drive/download/

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Post by sp332 »

BadassFractal wrote: post #112
sp332 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.dropbox.com/plans You might want to check "billed monthly" at the bottom.

Not sure I'm following.

I just meant that if you use "Dropbox for teams" you can upload more than one TB of data. And you pay more, but by default the prices on that page are "billed yearly" for some reason.
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