Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum
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Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum
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Re: Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum
#2I'll be very interested to find out what role Guido will take up at dropbox. When someone like Matz/ Guido/ etc gets hired, what do their job responsibilities, for the community include exactly? Are language writer hires such as this purely symbolic?
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#3This is great Dropbox PR. Also I'd imagine DB Python developers are excited!
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#4"the adventure found at a nimble 250-person startup like Dropbox becomes more tempting"
What is the definition of a startup these days, anyway?
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#5" the adventure found at a nimble 250-person startup like Dropbox becomes more tempting " What is the definition of a startup these days, anyway?
Are you saying that a start-up can't have more than a certain number of employees?
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#6" the adventure found at a nimble 250-person startup like Dropbox becomes more tempting " What is the definition of a startup these days, anyway?
A company in a hyper growth mode?
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#7I was always impressed by how much code Guido wrote at Google, he definitely isn't afraid to get his hands dirty.
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#8" the adventure found at a nimble 250-person startup like Dropbox becomes more tempting " What is the definition of a startup these days, anyway?
Are you saying that a start-up can't have more than a certain number of employees?
Well, I'm sure there is a point when a startup has started up.
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#9" the adventure found at a nimble 250-person startup like Dropbox becomes more tempting " What is the definition of a startup these days, anyway?
Perhaps companies that have existed for less than n years?
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#10" the adventure found at a nimble 250-person startup like Dropbox becomes more tempting " What is the definition of a startup these days, anyway?
Are you saying that a start-up can't have more than a certain number of employees?
It's a genuine question. To my mind, a startup has a small number of employees and not very much money. This is hardly the first time I've heard of a company with >100 employees described as a startup, so I'm interested to know what people's definitions are.