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Re: Dropbox S-1

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Post by speedie » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 8:37 PM UTC

Mega.nz

Re: Dropbox S-1

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Post by wonder_bread » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 8:37 PM UTC

Seems like the move away from AWS to it's own infrastrucutre is starting to pay dividends. 33% GM to 67% in two years is certainly impressive!

Re: Dropbox S-1

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Post by habosa » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 8:37 PM UTC

I believe this is the first ever YC company to go public? If so congrats to YC as well as the team at Dropbox.

Re: Dropbox S-1

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Post by braderhart » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 8:38 PM UTC

news_to_me wrote: post #17

tardo99 wrote: post #6

Congratulations to them. I don't really understand why anyone would use dropbox given the multitude of different offerings out there. I'm curious if anyone who uses them can give me a take on why I should use them. I currently use Google Drive + Google Docs and am very satisfied. I pay for 1 TB of storage for personal work / storage.

I know this isn't a very good answer for most people, but for me at least, I trust Dropbox way more than Google. I really dislike the direction and influence Google has on the Web right now, and I'm more or less ideologically opposed to them as a company (and in general, any giant monopolistic company). I hate the fact that I have to "vote with my dollar," but in the end I just feel better giving my money to an "inde…

I don't. Google provides way more for a lot less money. You can encrypt your own content on either providers. For GSuite you get literally almost every service you can imagine, include a phone number that you can make unlimited calls to/from landlines with using your computer.

Re: Dropbox S-1

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Post by braderhart » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 8:38 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #20

tardo99 wrote: post #6

Congratulations to them. I don't really understand why anyone would use dropbox given the multitude of different offerings out there. I'm curious if anyone who uses them can give me a take on why I should use them. I currently use Google Drive + Google Docs and am very satisfied. I pay for 1 TB of storage for personal work / storage.

1TB of storage: - Google Drive: $9.99 ( https://www.google.com/drive/pricing/ - Dropbox: $8.25 ( https://www.dropbox.com/individual/plans-comparison ) There's one answer for you.

Look into GSuite and see what else you get, in addition to archiving support for Google Drive... and actually, GSuite is unlimited storage... sorry Dropbox, but you lose in terms of price and features.

Re: Dropbox S-1

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Post by artursapek » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 8:39 PM UTC

uptown wrote: post #2

"My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB" Apr 4, 2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

It's too bad they let that original URL die.

Re: Dropbox S-1

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Post by varenc » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 8:39 PM UTC

tardo99 wrote: post #6

Congratulations to them. I don't really understand why anyone would use dropbox given the multitude of different offerings out there. I'm curious if anyone who uses them can give me a take on why I should use them. I currently use Google Drive + Google Docs and am very satisfied. I pay for 1 TB of storage for personal work / storage.

I find Dropbox’s sync client to be way more stable and has better operating system integration. Also better API documentation =)

Re: Dropbox S-1

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Post by meritt » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 8:39 PM UTC

Rough numbers here because BOX hasn't reported full 2017 yet but:

    Dropbox 2017: $1107M Revenue
    Dropbox 2017 Paying Users: 11M
    ARPU: $100 [1]

    Box.com (Q4-16 to Q3-17): $479M Revenue
    Box.com (Q3-17) Paying Users: 9.7M - 10.2M [2]
    ARPU: $47 - $49 [3]

    [1] $1107/11
    [2] "over 17% of our registered users [57M] were paying users"
    [3] 479/10.2 to 479/9.7

Re: Dropbox S-1

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Post by braderhart » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 8:39 PM UTC

tsm wrote: post #10

tardo99 wrote: post #6

Congratulations to them. I don't really understand why anyone would use dropbox given the multitude of different offerings out there. I'm curious if anyone who uses them can give me a take on why I should use them. I currently use Google Drive + Google Docs and am very satisfied. I pay for 1 TB of storage for personal work / storage.

My two reasons: 1) More people use Dropbox, which makes sharing easier. 2) First-class support for Linux

Dropbox never worked on Linux for me. It was buggy and maxed out my CPU. They didn't even provide proper changelogs at the time.. not sure if they do now? Is their application open source? Rclone works with Google Drive just fine, and it is unlimited storage.

Re: Dropbox S-1

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Post by mankash666 » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 8:39 PM UTC

Just curious - how's a raw SEC filing preferable to a reliable article summarizing it in non-legalese, providing context with the competition, etc.

Other than lawyers and economists, does anyone ACTUALLY prefer this raw filing?

EDIT: Adding my preferred link: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/dropbox-ipo-form-s-1-prospec...