I interviewed with Dropbox before their IPO. It felt like an old company that everyone is coasting. I wonder how young companies get to that point so quickly?
Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
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Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
#12I interviewed with Dropbox before their IPO. It felt like an old company that everyone is coasting. I wonder how young companies get to that point so quickly?
By not innovating in new products would be my guess.
Dropbox is their product and? There's "Corporate Dropbox" and that's it?
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#13I interviewed with Dropbox before their IPO. It felt like an old company that everyone is coasting. I wonder how young companies get to that point so quickly?
By not innovating in new products would be my guess. Dropbox is their product and? There's "Corporate Dropbox" and that's it?
They should have gone all in on Dropbox Paper and building out an office suite to compete with GSuite and O365. Didn't happen.
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#14It's too bad Apple and Dropbox didn't hit it off in their earlier days. Apple's file management experience still isn't up to Dropbox's level.
Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
#15I interviewed with Dropbox before their IPO. It felt like an old company that everyone is coasting. I wonder how young companies get to that point so quickly?
Once the product is built you don’t need as many people
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
By not innovating in new products would be my guess. Dropbox is their product and? There's "Corporate Dropbox" and that's it?
They should have gone all in on Dropbox Paper and building out an office suite to compete with GSuite and O365. Didn't happen.
Why? It's almost impossible to keep up with Microsoft (as LibreOffice shows), it's definitely impossible to write one from scratch.
Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
#17It's too bad Apple and Dropbox didn't hit it off in their earlier days. Apple's file management experience still isn't up to Dropbox's level.
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#18Can you draw parallels between Zoom and Dropbox? Users love the product but it makes less sense for the IT department to pay for them when Microsoft and Google are offering similar and "good enough" alternatives for "free"?
Can Zoom survive?
Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
#19I interviewed with Dropbox before their IPO. It felt like an old company that everyone is coasting. I wonder how young companies get to that point so quickly?
By not innovating in new products would be my guess. Dropbox is their product and? There's "Corporate Dropbox" and that's it?
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Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
By not innovating in new products would be my guess. Dropbox is their product and? There's "Corporate Dropbox" and that's it?
They should have gone all in on Dropbox Paper and building out an office suite to compete with GSuite and O365. Didn't happen.
This is a steep hill to climb. Microsoft is deeply entrenched in enterprises with .Net, Active Directory, SQL server, all that jazz (witness how fast Teams sped past Slack usage). It's easier for Microsoft to roll out storage than it is for Dropbox to become Microsoft or Google.
Jobs was right, Dropbox is a feature, not a product.