Dropbox products and future prospective
I have a job offer from Dropbox. It makes me thinking, how Dropbox products are better than competition? I see that this company has increasing source of income. I see that it has multiple products. But what makes them better than competitors. For example how dropbox storage is better than google drive? How is their HelloSign better than the popular DocuSign? I clearly see that Dropbox is earning money, but I don't understand why a company would for choose their product instead of any other. #dropbox #tech #industry
Well honestly FSS is extremely good. Also, I've gotten the sense that our customer base is targeted at small businesses. I have actually run into a lot of people that tell me their business uses Dropbox for stuff like video transfer. So we definitely have customers. Also it seems Hellosign is very targeted towards small businesses and people probably buy package deals.
Looks like you are an eng, you can try one thing: write a script to create millions big files, randomly make changes on them. Run this script on Dropbox vs Google drive. Check the sync performance and correctness and you will see the difference. Lol
Same thing as why do people use azure over Aws or drive a bmw over Mercedes or use Apple over Samsung. People value different things when they pick a product. Some look at prices, some look at UI, some choose familiarity. Even for pure commodity like water, there are different brands lol. Consumer preference is a beast of its own and require million dollars of money in market research and spending. Not something that can be easily concluded on blind
They’ve got their loyal customers, and switching costs for enterprises are quite high. As long as Dropbox isn’t materially worse than the competitors, there’s less incentive for existing customers to switch. I get the feeling they’re hunting around for the next big product, so it’s more or less a ‘legacy’ company now.
Their revenue seems to be growing though. I wonder if one of their products is growing significantly.
Ghanta