Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
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Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
#2and Al Gore is on the board of many businesses... what's the big deal with it? because she's republican?
EDIT: why am i downvoted? because i'm pointing out ex politics on both sides seat on boards or because i talked about being republican,which is not popular here?
Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
#3and Al Gore is on the board of many businesses... what's the big deal with it? because she's republican? EDIT: why am i downvoted? because i'm pointing out ex politics on both sides seat on boards or because i talked about being republican,which is not popular here?
Isn't this a kind of conflict of interest? (not a snark but a real question).
Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
#4and Al Gore is on the board of many businesses... what's the big deal with it? because she's republican? EDIT: why am i downvoted? because i'm pointing out ex politics on both sides seat on boards or because i talked about being republican,which is not popular here?
Isn't this a kind of conflict of interest? (not a snark but a real question).
No. She currently works at Stanford. She's not presiding over any legislation or anything, nor does she hold any office I'm aware of.
Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
#5and Al Gore is on the board of many businesses... what's the big deal with it? because she's republican? EDIT: why am i downvoted? because i'm pointing out ex politics on both sides seat on boards or because i talked about being republican,which is not popular here?
Probably. Condoleezza Rice has ties to Stanford and is a good pickup for overseas advice.
Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
#6Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
#7and Al Gore is on the board of many businesses... what's the big deal with it? because she's republican? EDIT: why am i downvoted? because i'm pointing out ex politics on both sides seat on boards or because i talked about being republican,which is not popular here?
I think the implication is because she's an advisor to the NSA, it does not necessarily make her the best custodian of our data.
That said, the idea that she would ever be in a position to touch any user's data from the board is absurd -- however, with appropriate amounts of tin foil, if you were looking for a way in to a big-money data-sale to the NSA, you could do worse than Condy for your board.
Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
#8Now I have no doubts anymore about Dropbox "coming soon" to PRISM, if it's not already in it.
Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
#9and Al Gore is on the board of many businesses... what's the big deal with it? because she's republican? EDIT: why am i downvoted? because i'm pointing out ex politics on both sides seat on boards or because i talked about being republican,which is not popular here?
For me, the problem is her involvement with the Bush Iraq fiasco. Lying about weapons of mass destruction.
Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
#10Reasons this might be a great move for Dropbox:
1. It will help them secure major enterprise clients, probably the govt. or with ties to the govt.
2. Great selling point to institutional investors come IPO time.
3. Navigating foreign business opportunities.
Although I'm not a fan of this move by Dropbox, it is important to note that Stanford has hired Rice as a professor as well. No one is abandoning Stanford, and the hits that Dropbox is going to take are going to be minuscule in comparison to the upside. This is just the hard reality.
Rice does have a lot of experience that is relevant to Dropbox and students at Stanford and I'd just like to leave it at that because at the end of the day, connections + experiences that come from being Secretary of State trump pure meritocracy or idealism.