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Kind of crazy that Dropbox has 2600 employees no? What do they all do? Isn't Dropbox finished?

I guess there's a very small number maintaining the core Dropbox stuff and most of them are working on speculative projects to increase revenue (e.g. this Dash thing they mentioned)?



> Kind of crazy that Dropbox has 2600 employees

No, the HN consensus is they are massive geniuses for moving out of AWS. Nobody here ever accounts for the extra datacenter, hardware platform, hardware ops, infrastructure ops, etc.


I'm sure that they did their research before making the big move.


What kind of argument is that? Everyone does their research, that doesn’t mean there aren’t bad (and even stupid) choices made.




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