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The_Colonel on Jan 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

> 2020 is the first year in their history in which they will have been profitable at all.

That's because they are absolutely bloated company given the relatively simple service they provide. In 2019, they employed 2300 people.

tornato7 on Jan 13, 2021 [–]

Yep, Dropbox created a nifty file sharing tool that a handful of devs should be able to support, but instead of keeping the team small they decided to go all "Big Enterprise Saas IPO" on us.

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