Congratulations! What a consistent drama free run. Also, resisted an acquisition offer from Steve Jobs!
How was it drama-free? There was a #DeleteDropbox campaign after they hired Condoleezza Rice, widely considered to be a war criminal (especially outside US conservative circles) and definitely a proponent of domestic spying programs.
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#242Surveillance partner for NSA PRISM program, with Condoleeza Rice on its board. Stopped using DropBox due to ethical concerns years ago.
Me too. The product was great but it was too much to take in. They didn't just learn anything from the Snowden revelations but instead put people from the government in the board. I'd rather prefer to keep using my pendrive, thank you.
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
Congratulations to the entire team. I think it's interesting to go back to that thread, look at what the author (BrandonM) has done since then and learn some important lessons about being able to step outside of your own head to see the bigger picture. Looks like he's still working for another company and has an unfinished blog ( http://shebang.brandonmintern.com ) but he seems like a really smart guy. The takeaway I…
Looking at his LinkedIn profile, it seems like he was still in college then. He was wrong, of course, but I think his errors were pretty reasonable given his situation. It's very easy for tech people to say, "But it's totally easy, you just [long string of steps that they've learned over the course of years]." It takes time to learn that no, easy things for you can be hard for others. If you want them to use the thin…
As an engineer, "But it's totally easy, you just..." is my least favorite phrase. "Just" in particular. You can obscure so much effort with 4 simple letters.
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#244Closed lower...
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#245Closed lower...
It closed at $28.42, more than 35% above the offer price of $21. In comparison, the S&P tech index was down nearly 3%.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dropbox-ipo/dropbox-share...
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#246Is Dropbox a buy right now at ~$30? What do you think.
Trading at what 10 x sales ? That's a rich valuation. They've gotta show some impressive growth and get more to the bottom line or its coming back to earth.
Isn’t 10x sales pretty decent compared to the 100x, 200x we seem to see?
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#247Honest question: What about Sean Ellis? Maybe I am mis-remembering, but wasn't he the person behind the "invite for more storage" growth marketing effort that really helped propel Dropbox to mainstream use?
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#248Do they still have Condoleeza Rice on their board?
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
I genuinely laugh every time at that comment every time this gets reposted, as if 99.99% of people wouldn't run away if they read 'curlftpfs' and 'mounted filesystem'
HN had a higher percentage of people at that time that would've considered that to be a reasonable alternative to Dropbox.
Hacker News used to be for hackers.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well put. Also, one thing I think people ignore is that BrandonM's comment was notable because it was voted to the top . Which means that the people reading and voting on the thread, at the time, thought it was the best reply. But no one will ever point a finger at them, because they're anonymous. They also have less chance for self-reflection - who remembers an upvote?
I also think people might overlook BrandonM's follow-up reply to dhouston's reply on April 6th - "All of your feedback was well-thought-out and appreciated; I only hope that I was able to give you a sneak preview of some of the potential criticisms you may receive. Best of luck to you!"
Yup. It's really only the first part of the comment which had tunnel vision.
(Which does of course raise the question: were people upvoting for that part, or despite it? We'll never know)