Alphane Moon to TechnologyEnglish • 2 months agoDropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformedarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square22arrow-up1195arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1192arrow-down1external-linkDropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformedarstechnica.comAlphane Moon to TechnologyEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square22cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squareDr. WeskerlinkfedilinkEnglish81•edit-22 months ago> Q3 2024 earnings report drops > record profits > CEO gets fat raise
minus-square@spamfajitaslinkEnglish19•2 months agoDon’t forget, from 2014 to 2021, they had George W Bush’s Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on their board of directors.
minus-squareOptionallinkEnglish12•2 months agoAs 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.
minus-square@scarabiclinkEnglish2•2 months agoIt’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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoThey were one of the first players, especially for business.
> Q3 2024 earnings report drops
> record profits
> CEO gets fat raise
Don’t forget, from 2014 to 2021, they had George W Bush’s Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on their board of directors.
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.
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.
They were one of the first players, especially for business.