How come? Honest question. Would making that information available hurt your business somehow? Don't get me wrong, my typical impulse is to play numbers very close to the vest, but I'm realizing more and more that the real risk of transparency is usually pretty low.
I think I probably have enough transparency-is-groovy street cred to say this: they don't owe you a number, and they don't owe you an explanation, unless you are credibly trying to buy their company. (This is the generic "you", not the specific "you" here.)
I'm certainly not suggesting they owe me/anyone else anything! I was just curious what their rationale was for holding back. Maybe it's a really good reason I hadn't considered.
It's the only part of an interview with Dropbox that would be interesting.
I have a business plan where I send out a dollar free to anyone who logs onto my site. With $5M of funding from YC I think I could also get 4million 'customers'
As it stands I use dropbox for free. When they/or their vc decides to start charging me I will switch to the next free competitor, this is not a business model.
Curious to know if Dropbox intends to approach academic institutions in the near future to replace their current home directories/centralized file repositories.....
Sorry. Another technical difficulty on my side. For some reason my new microphone stopped working during the broadcast! When I post the mp3 file, I will also include my questions in the text.
I'm watching the live feed now, but unfortunately the audio is borked and Jessica is muted. Since I can't read lips, I'll have to hope this is fixed when it's put up later.
