Hackpad and Loom? Dropbox is on a bit of a feeding frenzy.
A bit of goodwill generation after the whole Condoleeza thing.
Dropbox acquires Hackpad (YC W12)
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#12Acquihires are pretty much the default hiring method these days, so "victory" now requires keeping the product active after acquisition. A toast, then, to Hackpad. Well done.
Is the human capital pool really that tight in the Valley?
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#13Acquihires are pretty much the default hiring method these days, so "victory" now requires keeping the product active after acquisition. A toast, then, to Hackpad. Well done.
Is the human capital pool really that tight in the Valley?
Given that a 2br apartment is $8000/month in some places, yeah.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bit of goodwill generation after the whole Condoleeza thing.
So did they dump the Bushevik war-pushing bitch or not?
They probably don't need too, I doubt much of a stink was raised.
EDIT: Oh my, people are upset that I stated I don't see much of an issue being made over Rices appointment.
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#16I think this makes a lot of sense for Dropbox. Documents are moving online, which means people won't need Dropbox for them. I have a half-written blog post from months ago on why Dropbox should by Quip for this reason - they should be trying to leapfrog Google Docs to stay competitive. Best of luck to the team!
Box made the Writely founder VP Eng for precisely this reason.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is the human capital pool really that tight in the Valley?
Given that a 2br apartment is $8000/month in some places, yeah.
Am I the only one that immediately sees that as a sign of 'Maybe people should setup satellite offices and stop recruiting in the Valley due to costs'?
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#19Just a little side note. I really wish people would give an overview of what their service is or does in press releases like this. Quite often, I see 'Facebook bought x' or 'Dropbox bought y' and I click to see what it is, and if I would want to use it. More often than not, there's no little blurb that lets me know what their product even does.
Agreed... often these sorts of headlines are the first time I've ever heard of "x" or "y". And in many cases, it's probably the biggest publicity hit these companies have ever received.
Except perhaps in the case of an acquihire; if they're going to pull the plug on the service, there's not much point in advertising what you can't have ;)
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
So did they dump the Bushevik war-pushing bitch or not?
Classy
Classier than starting a war for no discernible rational reason.
Edit: just to make my position clear: this goes beyond Democrat/Republican ideologies or politics and into the realm of criminality. This is in a wholly different league from the Mozilla CEO gay rights controversy.
Condoleeza Rice and the rest of the Bush administration cynically exploited 9/11 to launch a completely unrelated war for no discernible reason other than to enrich their pals in the defense contracting industry and perhaps to pursue some crackpot political theories that were never publicly disclosed or discussed.
These people lied us into a war, and every indication seems to be that they did so intentionally. They committed fraud at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer money and (conservatively) tens of thousands of innocent human lives. They are white collar criminals with blood on their hands and belong in prison.
Am I wrong? They've had ample time to explain themselves and have failed to do so. I think it's because they can't. Anyone want to link to a rational and defensible explanation for the Iraq war that does not reference crackpot baloney from a right-wing rag like Pajamas Media or Fox News? (Just so you know this isn't totally partisan... I'd say the same thing if a similar thing were done based on information from AlterNet or TruthOut or some other lefty rag. By rag I mean 'clearly biased to the point of being untrustworthy news source.')
What would you think if Dropbox had recruited -- say -- a Bernie Madoff type who happened to "get off" on a technicality for running a Ponzi scheme? What Bernie did did not (directly) kill anyone.
I'm very curious to see how the stock of a company that recruits crooks to their board does on the open market.