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Re:Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game by dominotw on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @06:21PM (#11030741)
>Dropbox is simply a medium-sized, privately held, profit-generating company that will end up satisfying a certain customer segment and paying dividends to investors? The horror! reply

how well did that work out for basecamp?

They could have been the next slack if they had not stuck to their stupid philosophy of staying small.

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Re:Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game by freehunter on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @07:08PM (#11030987)
Is Basecamp in trouble or out of business? Not everyone needs to be huge, and it's not always profitable to grow out of control. Sometimes the costs of growth exceed the additional profits. Sometime to pivot to a market that doesn't actually exist. But sometimes you make some pretty decent money with a pretty decent profit, even if it's not exciting.
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Re:Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game by dominotw on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @07:26PM (#11031071)
> Not everyone needs to be huge

But we are specifically talking about dropbox here.

I am sure they were not exactly aiming to "be small" raising million of dollars in multiple investment rounds.

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