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I'm happy to hear that. As a Dropbox user and paying customer, it reassures me that they won't get acquihired or otherwise fuck up the product in a typical startup fashion any time soon.

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Dropbox is too busy acquihiring and fucking up other startups to do it themselves ;)

There is still no guarantee that they won't get acquired and fuck the product up in the end.

Sadly, there's never a guarantee. But it doesn't seem like they're looking for an exit strategy, which is reassuring.

How do you know they are not looking for an exit strategy? They have stopped aggressively hiring and buying startups. Their new product launches and innovation has been minimal. Their market is largely commoditized.

Secondly, they have raised a ton of VC cash and those VCs are looking for an exit. So keep the company cash flow positive makes it look very attractive for larger companies and especially PE firms.

From what I've heard, they have been more focused on selling to Enterprises...as they should. There are only so many people who can be paid customers; Enterprises provide a much more predictable (and larger) stream of revenue.

Either that, or they're trying to prop up the price before accepting an offer :)

Everyone is always looking for an exit strategy. You won't know until the right price comes along though.

I think you are using that term wrong. Acqui-hired is used when a small startup is acquired by a larger company, chiefly to hire its founders. It does not apply to larger companies like Dropbox. Dropbox would simply be acquired by a larger company.

How is Dropbox going to be acqui-hired? They are hundreds of people. If anything, it would be an outright purchase.

Actually no IPO makes it easier to be acquihired, I would be more worried not less.

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