Dropbox Versus The World
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Dropbox Versus The World
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#2Love this following paragraph:
"Houston is also working hard to ensure that Dropbox feels like a collection of peers, at all levels of the company. It’s a philosophy that appeals to many Dropbox employees. On a chilly night in San Francisco’s Financial District, Ilya Fushman, head of business and mobile products, and Agarwal join Houston and me for dinner at the Battery, an exclusive restaurant and private club. Despite the posh surroundings, Fushman and Agarwal wax poetic about the egalitarian culture Houston and Ferdowsi have created. "It’s really hard to pull off creating an environment of peers," says Agarwal, a former engineering director at Facebook who oversaw the development of its News Feed. "We hold ourselves accountable to expectations, and at a bunch of companies, that ends up being centralized. Drew’s my boss, but I prefer to think of him as a peer and friend.""
I really don't know if the author was being facetious or the surroundings really did distort his perception of reality. But either way, as someone who grew up in a communist country, I really can't believe how people in SV are spewing these kind of second rate propaganda while keeping a straight face.
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#3> Dropbox has the distinction of being the only cloud service--and perhaps the only startup--ever to compete simultaneously against Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Tencent.
If you're wondering who Tencent is, you're not alone:
http://www.thestreet.com/story/13095109/1/how-tencent-up-140...
They sold games on feature phones, then smartphones, then made WeChat, which is IM, I think, and massive in China. They also have a payment service, and the short version is, they're a competitor to Alibaba.
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#4Love this following paragraph: "Houston is also working hard to ensure that Dropbox feels like a collection of peers, at all levels of the company. It’s a philosophy that appeals to many Dropbox employees. On a chilly night in San Francisco’s Financial District, Ilya Fushman, head of business and mobile products, and Agarwal join Houston and me for dinner at the Battery, an exclusive restaurant and private club. Desp…
Makes you think of a scene straight out of The Hunger Games. These guys, surrounded by opulence, building the perfect society, all while ignoring the reality of the middle class rats that surround them.
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#5"Your whole computing environment ought to follow you around," explains Houston. "Your financial records, your health information, your music playlist . . . anything that’s ‘mine.’
I really hope no one is storing their financial records and health information on Dropbox...
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#6"Your whole computing environment ought to follow you around," explains Houston. "Your financial records, your health information, your music playlist . . . anything that’s ‘mine.’ I really hope no one is storing their financial records and health information on Dropbox...
Its inevitable. When todays 22yr olds hit their 30s, their documents will be handled in the cloud and accessed everywhere, including financial, medical, certificates, insurance policies etc. We might even find a way to us cloud documentation as verification, forgot your ID at home while entering a bar, just open your dropbox, box on mobile & show verified ID.
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#7I only started the article, but it's too over-the-top to continue. I wonder how you get media to write about your startup like that?
> Dropbox has the distinction of being the only cloud service—and perhaps the only startup—ever to compete simultaneously against Apple ($748 billion market cap), Google ($369 billion), Microsoft ($357 billion), Amazon ($173 billion), and Tencent ($160 billion).
> Unlike his amply financed competitors, which were all founded during the desktop computing era, Houston has been embedded in the cloud for eight years, ever since launching Dropbox in 2007.
> No one yet dominates the new global network, but Dropbox just may be the most adroit cloud company in the world, the one that has solved more problems for its users than any other.
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#8Cloud storage is good for many things, but storing financial records, health information and other sensitive data is not one of them.
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#9"Your whole computing environment ought to follow you around," explains Houston. "Your financial records, your health information, your music playlist . . . anything that’s ‘mine.’ I really hope no one is storing their financial records and health information on Dropbox...
Of course they are. When I was buying a house, it was a nonstop game of scanning and shuffling financial data everywhere. Office scanner, office email, office computer, cloud storage provider, personal email... and because of cloud storage provider, all other linked machines in my house, .. not to mention the email accounts of the bankers...
You can try to get away from it, if you like. But then you're just wasting your time, faxing the same amount of data over immensely slow connections to your bank, who's just going to digitize it anyway and put it god knows where....
And anyone who has done this knows it's ALL time sensitive, and you have other responsibilities in life, so the most convenient/fastest method is the only real way of getting it done.
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#10> Dropbox has the distinction of being the only cloud service--and perhaps the only startup--ever to compete simultaneously against Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Tencent. If you're wondering who Tencent is, you're not alone: http://www.thestreet.com/story/13095109/1/how-tencent-up-140... They sold games on feature phones, then smartphones, then made WeChat, which is IM, I think, and massive in China. They als…
Tencent also is the majority interest of Riot Games. Riot Games is the creator of League of Legends which is probably the biggest selling game right now.