Dropbox CTO Resigns

Post by scarface74 » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 11:37 AM UTC

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Dropbox has slowly but surely gone from a product I enjoyed and recommended to one that I actively dislike using. Over that same time period, they have gone from being a consumer product to an enterprise product, because the money in file sharing software is in enterprise. Slowness, battery use, complexity, none of these are as important to Dropbox nowadays as they used to be, because they are not as important for en…

Swimming with the big fish is flawed from the start. Why do businesses use one drive? Because they have enterprise office and outlook for their email, and one drive was thrown in. Why do businesses use google drive? They use the google suite and gmail for their email and google drive was thrown in. If dropbox wants to compete with enterprise software they'd need to reinvent the office/g suite AND email services. They…

Post by scarface74 » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 11:52 AM UTC

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B2C is the place to be - it is a niche where an excellent product is going to continue to earn excellent money. Continue to reiterate and continue to improve the product, dont overspend on infrastructure and dont rent super expensive office space in the most expensive cities in the world. Enterprise is where SaaS companies go to die because they think that Microsofts of the world are just going to let them have the m…

I struggle to connect this to market facts. What big consumer SaaS tools exist? You could argue that Spotify and Netflix count. I disagree, but fine. You have networks like Tinder. You have a few tools companies like Carbonite, Dropbox, 1Password. These are niche. In the enterprise... Slack, Twilio, Stripe, Okta, Qualtrics, Datadog, Zoom, I feel like I could name 10 more easily. Enterprise is where SaaS companies get…

Post by scarface74 » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 11:54 AM UTC

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More like competition, including open source solutions, has reached a point where Dropbox is becoming obsolete.

I don’t understand why one would expect to be able to compete with iCloud, google drive, one drive. They have so much cash to burn.

Post by nefasti » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 12:29 PM UTC

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Only if they wanted VC expected growth..... they could have just stopped adding new features, only had a few employees, and continued to make money charging a small amount for their single feature.

It’s very hard to have solid product, engineering, marketing, sales, and support on any scale without taking VC money.

Post by fortran77 » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 1:20 PM UTC

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For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software In all seriousness, have you looked at OneDrive + Office365? For $70/year you get 1 TB of storage, a client that works on all platforms, plus M…

What if you want more than 1 TB? I've not found any option to purchase more storage for a non-business Office365 account.