Dropbox also laid off 500 last year but still had “excess layers of management.”…
    • spamfajitas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      15 days ago

      Don’t forget, from 2014 to 2021, they had George W Bush’s Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on their board of directors.

      • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        15 days ago

        As soon as I read that, years ago, I thought “Well Dropbox. That was a very poor choice.”

        I haven’t considered it since.

        “You can use it with Dropbox!” they say.

        Yeah, nah.

        • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          15 days ago

          It’s a neat utility and all, or at least it was neat back when the cloud was novel. But I don’t understand how what’s basically a minor iCloud feature became a publicly traded company of gigantic size.