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They have 2500 employees. Why does a single product company with a product that is mostly “done” need those many people?



This horrible obsession with exponential growth. It's not enough to maintain a core team of engineers and pass on those savings on the price in order to gain more customers.


I completely agree with your sentiment, but it puts the company in a difficult position when your competition offers similar functionality for "free" (because you already paid for Office or their primary revenue model is different).


> This horrible obsession with exponential growth

I don't know if I would call it horrible. Money makes the world turn. Capitalism and all that.


Because Google would have more dedicated to the software/sales/datacenters/etc for Google One/Drive/Photos.

They need to compete with what the competition is doing.


I would guess security is a huge part of dropbox and you’re never “done” there. The first dropbox-like that gets breached can say good bye to their spot on the market.




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