Comment on Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed

wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• spamfajitas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t forget, from 2014 to 2021, they had George W Bush’s Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on their board of directors.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As soon as I read that, years ago, I thought “Well Dropbox. That was a very poor choice.”

    I haven’t considered it since.

    “You can use it with Dropbox!” they say.

    Yeah, nah.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a neat utility and all, or at least it was neat back when the cloud was novel. But I don’t understand how what’s basically a minor iCloud feature became a publicly traded company of gigantic size.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They were one of the first players, especially for business.

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