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Re:Dropbox hires a COO: Dennis Woodside, former Motorola Mob... by Super_luigi on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @11:54PM (#7229535)
he was CEO of a division of Google worth $3B to COO at a $10B company. Seems natural to me

it's the equivalent of a Sheryl-Zuck type of relation. He'll lead all business and Drew will lead product. Dropbox is basically ran by ex-Googlers now: Marc Leibowitz, Ramsey H., Woodside, etc.

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Re:Dropbox hires a COO: Dennis Woodside, former Motorola Mob... by mathattack on Thursday February 13, 2014 @06:42AM (#7230787)
Title can be misleading. He went from a low growth division with existing processes to a high growth firm he can help build.

It's kind of like saying a director of internal IT with 50 direct reports is taking a demotion to be the first engineering manager at a 10 person startup. Different environment.

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