A major difference between between this tech boom and the dot com boom of the 90s is the general public had a real shot at investing in serious growth potential during the dot com boom. Now most of the growth is experienced under private ownership, then the grossly overvalued company is pawned off for the public to invest in. VCs have figured out how to extract most of the exciting gains.
Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
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Re: Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
#22A major difference between between this tech boom and the dot com boom of the 90s is the general public had a real shot at investing in serious growth potential during the dot com boom. Now most of the growth is experienced under private ownership, then the grossly overvalued company is pawned off for the public to invest in. VCs have figured out how to extract most of the exciting gains.
It would seem that ICO may change that.
Re: Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
#23deleted dropbox from mac machines after recent privacy issues - e.g. [0]
still using it on windows machines because of public links, but won't be for long, until hopefully iCloud gets this too
good luck with the IPO - will be the first one publicly traded feature and not a product ;0)
served me with some free GBs gained from various promos over the years well; so long and thanks for all the fish!
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would be soooooo happy if I got to see the code that began it. Does it happen to available anywhere?
Not sure about the code, but here's the original Demo Video Drew had on their getdropbox.com landing page. It presents the features in a very entertaining way :) [ Sep 15th 2008 ] DropBox Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmCUDHpNzE
This is one of the best product demo's I've seen. The product is just so fully formed, even back in 2008. Really is presented as "it just works".
"Why do you keep sending me this crap" without comment, made me lol.
Re: Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
#25A major difference between between this tech boom and the dot com boom of the 90s is the general public had a real shot at investing in serious growth potential during the dot com boom. Now most of the growth is experienced under private ownership, then the grossly overvalued company is pawned off for the public to invest in. VCs have figured out how to extract most of the exciting gains.
That's what everyone said about facebook, but it's up 4x since IPO, and 8x from the post IPO dip it had.
Re: Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
#26A major difference between between this tech boom and the dot com boom of the 90s is the general public had a real shot at investing in serious growth potential during the dot com boom. Now most of the growth is experienced under private ownership, then the grossly overvalued company is pawned off for the public to invest in. VCs have figured out how to extract most of the exciting gains.
That's what everyone said about facebook, but it's up 4x since IPO, and 8x from the post IPO dip it had.
The exception that proves the rule, eh?
Re: Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
#27A major difference between between this tech boom and the dot com boom of the 90s is the general public had a real shot at investing in serious growth potential during the dot com boom. Now most of the growth is experienced under private ownership, then the grossly overvalued company is pawned off for the public to invest in. VCs have figured out how to extract most of the exciting gains.
That's what everyone said about facebook, but it's up 4x since IPO, and 8x from the post IPO dip it had.
Compare that to the first 5 years of Amazon post-IPO.
Re: Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's what everyone said about facebook, but it's up 4x since IPO, and 8x from the post IPO dip it had.
Compare that to the first 5 years of Amazon post-IPO.
it went from $2 to $16 (split adjusted). The real difference is that it was much much smaller at IPO, meaning it's pretty much impossible for FB to continue generating outsized returns whereas Amazon actually did much better from 5-10 or 10-15 than FB possibly could.
Re: Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's what everyone said about facebook, but it's up 4x since IPO, and 8x from the post IPO dip it had.
Compare that to the first 5 years of Amazon post-IPO.
Saving everyone a Google search: AMZN opened at (split adjusted) $1.49. 5 years later it was at $19.47. Over that span, it maxed at $106.69 (Dec 1999).
Re: Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
#30A major difference between between this tech boom and the dot com boom of the 90s is the general public had a real shot at investing in serious growth potential during the dot com boom. Now most of the growth is experienced under private ownership, then the grossly overvalued company is pawned off for the public to invest in. VCs have figured out how to extract most of the exciting gains.
"Investing" in those days was "speculating." Hundreds of dubious companies made it to IPO that would never make it that far today, and most of those lost all their public investors' money.