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Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by nsxwolf »

afterburner wrote: post #339
nsxwolf wrote: post #332

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Doesn't say much for the opposition party... why were the Democrats so easily duped?

The American people were duped. And it wasn't easy; they had to create a lot of lies, some coming straight from the CIA (being pressured to create a case for war). They put on quite a show at the UN. And when the people get behind something, politicians have to take notice; after all, they can't wield any influence on the process if they don't get voted in. The mood in the country at the time was vengeful, hawkish. A…

I would rather vote for neither party. Liars vs. people too stupid to protect us from the liars, while simultaneously wagging their fingers in our faces, claiming to be smart, and pretending they weren't duped by the liars.

Not an inspiring choice.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by gnud »

bambax wrote: post #28
vdaniuk wrote: post #13

Sooo, will we be seeing a repeat of the Eich-like public outcry? Though I may understand the business rationale for this hire, I certainly wont trust founders, board or anyone else at Dropbox who is OK working with a person that is partially responsible for deaths of thousands(arguably hundreds of thousands) people in the Iraq war based on false premises about "WMD". Oh, and we shouldn't forget about her role in "enh…

I feel just like you but rely on Dropbox so much. What serious alternatives are they? (preferably, non-US-based?)

JottaCloud[0] is based in Norway. 5 GB free, supports win, osx, ios and android currently. Linux client development starts Q2 2014 (now) according to their user forum [1].

They sorely lack an API though. Hopefully they will adress this soon.

[0]: http://www.jottacloud.com/ [1]: http://forum.jotta.no/jotta/topics/jottacloud_in_linux

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by rainmaking »

protomyth wrote: post #5
camus2 wrote: post #2

and Al Gore is on the board of many businesses... what's the big deal with it? because she's republican? EDIT: why am i downvoted? because i'm pointing out ex politics on both sides seat on boards or because i talked about being republican,which is not popular here?

Probably. Condoleezza Rice has ties to Stanford and is a good pickup for overseas advice.

She sure does understand how to kill foreigners, but I'm not so sure about marketing to them.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by mathattack »

zimpenfish wrote: post #74
mathattack wrote: post #27

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If you were a VC or investor in the company, it should give you confidence that someone is around that can give the CEO advice on managing geo-political minefields. The last thing you want is the overseas political issues that Microsoft and Google have had to deal with.

Given how well she did giving advice about previous overseas political issues, I'd wager you'd want her as far away from your CEO as it was possible to get without sending him to the moon.

Here we are getting a little out of my element, but... How well do we know that she gave bad advice, versus him not listening? I do know that her speciality was Russia, not the Middle East, but after all that time in DC I am pretty sure she's learned a lot. Sometimes you learn from political failures, just like entrepreneurial ones.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by rainmaking »

boston1999 wrote: post #298

Why would they choose her while there are so many other more qualified people for the board of a technology company!

I would suspect something along the lines of mandatory dropbox usage in the DMV to the tunes of 15 bucks a pop.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by alttab »

mathattack wrote: post #344
zimpenfish wrote: post #74

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Given how well she did giving advice about previous overseas political issues, I'd wager you'd want her as far away from your CEO as it was possible to get without sending him to the moon.

Here we are getting a little out of my element, but... How well do we know that she gave bad advice, versus him not listening? I do know that her speciality was Russia, not the Middle East, but after all that time in DC I am pretty sure she's learned a lot. Sometimes you learn from political failures, just like entrepreneurial ones.

So you don't hire against track record? Past performance is still the leading indicator of future success.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by abrowne »

aspidistra wrote: post #297
bambax wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel just like you but rely on Dropbox so much. What serious alternatives are they? (preferably, non-US-based?)

Wuala is run by LaCie and based in Switzerland. http://wuala.com/en/ Its servers are in CH, FR and DE. It encrypts the data on your client before it is uploaded. The free plan offers 5GB.

Hopefully won't affect anything, but Seagate is in the process of buying LaCie...

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by abrowne »

abrowne wrote: post #60
bambax wrote: post #28

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I feel just like you but rely on Dropbox so much. What serious alternatives are they? (preferably, non-US-based?)

I've been looking at MEO Cloud[1]. It's by Sapo.pt, a part of Portugal Telecom. I first saw it recommended by Rui Carmo of Tao of Mac[2], who I've generally thought offers good advice. (He also is Portuguese...) And, they offer a Linux download unlike most other alternatives. [1]: https://meocloud.pt/ [2]: http://the.taoofmac.com/ [Edited for clarity and fixed links.]

A few more things to add:

(A) the app is in English, even though the website is in Portuguese.

(B) the cli client is open source and on Github:

http://oss.sapo.pt/#!meocloud-cli-architecture https://github.com/sapo/meocloud-cli

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by mathattack »

alttab wrote: post #347
mathattack wrote: post #344

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here we are getting a little out of my element, but... How well do we know that she gave bad advice, versus him not listening? I do know that her speciality was Russia, not the Middle East, but after all that time in DC I am pretty sure she's learned a lot. Sometimes you learn from political failures, just like entrepreneurial ones.

So you don't hire against track record? Past performance is still the leading indicator of future success.

In tech entrepreneurship aren't we allowed to fail?

And she is in an advisory role, not managerial.

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