Dropbox: The hottest startup you've never heard of
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Dropbox: The hottest startup you've never heard of
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Re: Dropbox: The hottest startup you've never heard of
#2Expected an article from 4 years ago...
Re: Dropbox: The hottest startup you've never heard of
#3This is why traditional / mainstream media is fighting a battle to remain relevant.
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#4Excellent, if my non-technical friends ever ask why I don't go to mainstream media for tech news, I'll point them to this article.
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#5Eh, "you've never heard of"?
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Re: Dropbox: The hottest startup you've never heard of
#7This is why traditional / mainstream media is fighting a battle to remain relevant.
This they call fighting?
Re: Dropbox: The hottest startup you've never heard of
#8counterpoint: Dropbox is a great product, clever tech, insightful marketing etc. Even the YC application was great. And I think there's a large market (even its present size is more than enough to sate my own avarice), but... it doesn't seem that it could become a truly huge company (like Xerox, Google), without launching a series of increasingly unrelated products. Though perhaps that's true of many huge companies (e.g. Apple, Sony, HP - even Microsoft has Office).
Re: Dropbox: The hottest startup you've never heard of
#9Major news outlet learns about cheaper way to share files from their intern who uses it at school like everyone else: News at 11
Re: Dropbox: The hottest startup you've never heard of
#10counterpoint: Dropbox is a great product, clever tech, insightful marketing etc. Even the YC application was great. And I think there's a large market (even its present size is more than enough to sate my own avarice), but... it doesn't seem that it could become a truly huge company (like Xerox, Google), without launching a series of increasingly unrelated products. Though perhaps that's true of many huge companies (…
possibly. that said, 100m in revenue 4 years after launch with a fairly unbounded market (every consumer), looks like quite the promising start.