I turned my back on Dropbox when they add a war criminal on the board. Dove headfirst into open source alts. Never really looked back.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
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#382I was lucky enough to work at Dropbox for a bit. Awesome engineering culture and such good people. Got to even grab a beer and rip karaoke with Drew. Thanks for creating such an awesome working environment Drew. I cannot say thank you enough for those memories or that experience. By far the best CEO and leader I've seen.
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Many people worked for FTX, loved SBF and would have said he was a great leader too. People will love anyone who is good to them.
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#384If there are any Dropboxers here (drew—I emailed you a few weeks ago, but I imagine you're busy): I went to prison for 18 months, my digital and physical life was stolen from me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451567 applies to my Dropbox account (and Apple but separate problem); I just received the "your account will be going bye-bye" email. I have very important dead-mom-club stuff in there, and support is…
Hi Josh -- Drew here -- our escalations team should be reaching out shortly. (Losing phone, 2FA keys, etc. can be tricky but they should be able to work with you and hopefully verify enough to get you unblocked.)
Well done, Drew!! And congrats on building an amazing company. Hope you'll get some rest before embarking in whatever is next.
Coincidentially, I know the new CEO, Ashraf Alkarmi; we met at AWS when he was launching Appstream, I believe back in 2013 if I'm not mistaken. It's funny to recognize a name. I am hopeful that he will do well as a CEO.
Re: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
#385I turned my back on Dropbox when they add a war criminal on the board. Dove headfirst into open source alts. Never really looked back.
Are you talking about Condoleezza Rice ?
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#386I always really liked Dropbox, but after a while it just made more sense to consolidate and start using Proton Drive. Do I miss Dropbox? Sure, but I don't miss the extra payment.
Re: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
#387I was lucky enough to work at Dropbox for a bit. Awesome engineering culture and such good people. Got to even grab a beer and rip karaoke with Drew. Thanks for creating such an awesome working environment Drew. I cannot say thank you enough for those memories or that experience. By far the best CEO and leader I've seen.
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I'm surprised they've been able to keep the stock price and the revenue flat given they competitive environment they've been in for many years. They've been going head to head with the cloud infrastructure hyperscalers and mobile platform owners despite just being a file storage SaaS. It's weird to me that people ever expected more of Dropbox given who they were up against.
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#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I'm surprised they've been able to keep the stock price and the revenue flat given they competitive environment they've been in for many years. They've been going head to head with the cloud infrastructure hyperscalers and mobile platform owners despite just being a file storage SaaS. It's weird to me that people ever expected more of Dropbox given who they were up against.
dropbox vs drive???
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#390Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's mobile devices not having user-facing files as first-class citizens. The mobile era started just as Dropbox started to solve a computer era problem. Bad timing.
>The mobile era started just as Dropbox started to solve a computer era problem. I still can't wrap my head around how people find their files in the non-filesystem world. Whenever I need to work with files I take out my laptop.
Even before mo lies people would say “I saved it in word”. Even if it was written to a floppy or usb drive.
They didn’t have the concept of files
The average computer user in 2000 was far more computer literate than the average one in 2010, and things have gone downhill ever since.