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What’s missing: Google Photos for Documents
To me, the clearest example is Dropbox. I’ve used Dropbox since the earliest days, and I love it. Nothing has ever come close to providing the speed, reliability, and cross-platform compatibility for file synching of Dropbox. Even though I technically get iCloud File Storage “for free” as part of some broader package, I still pay for Dropbox with a... See more
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I compared Zoom with Dropbox and Skype, but another useful comparison is with photo sharing. There have always been hundreds of things that did this, but we saw a succession of companies that worked out something new around user experience and psychology that took them beyond ‘photos’ to some deeper insight - first Flickr, then Facebook and Instagr... See more
Benedict Evans • What Comes After Zoom? — Benedict Evans
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Organize + collaborate with others (Pinterest, Asana, Dropbox)
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
We’re slowly giving everything to the cloud. Uploading ourself piece by piece but where is our backup of those digital memories we have?
Samuel Zeller • The Data We Leave Behind
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Dropbox, in the years before its IPO, came to orient itself in a new direction—to focus on highest-value users in the highest-value networks interacting with the highest-value files.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
I don’t have any special organization system for things like this. I don’t do it for photos or files. I used to have a perfectly organized hard drive with a complicated folder structure. Now I just throw all my files into one place and just use search. It’s like the toolbox I made all the way back at Tufts.
Seth Godin • Seth Godin Hates Being Organized
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Learn from Dropboxs' own @drewhouston.
Drew Houston • Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned
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