I spent that weekend making sure there was a Dropbox folder on every connected device I owned. To my mind it was obvious computing was shifting a gear and conversations about cloud were redundant if you didn’t mention mobile devices.
When I saw Dropbox for the first time it was May 2010 and UK tech journalist Bill Thompson showed it to me on his brand new first generation iPad.
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The product is evolving at a rapid pace and one of the latest capabilities involves every photo you take on your Android smartphone or iPhone being synched and stored in your private Dropbox folder that can then be accessed from any networked device of your choosing.
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“We expect to be in central Dublin,” she said.įrom talking to Dropbox, I get the giddy sense that it is shaping up to be a next generation IT company of scale and its ambition is apparent when you see how the product is manifesting.ĭropbox is a free cloud service that lets users bring all photos, docs and videos into a folder that can be accessed on any PC, Mac, iOS, BlackBerry or Android device and across a variety of web browsers. Lohrasbpour said that the company will begin its search for new offices in January. “We will start 2013 with plans to hire 30 to 40 people in the first year and it is very likely that in future years we will grow as quickly in Europe as we have in the US.” Our US operations have doubled in the last seven months in terms of employee headcount and so we are rapidly growing and we expect the Dublin operation to follow the same path because our European user base is expanding as well. We thought long and hard about what places in Europe would allow u to do the best job from both a sales support perspective and technical sales perspective and we chose Dublin. “Over one third of our 100m users are in Europe and we decided it was high time to support them closer to home. “Everything we do is through the lens of what would be best for our users,” explained Mitra Lohrasbpour, head of business development at Dropbox whom I met at IDA Ireland’s Dublin offices this morning. If the consumerisation of IT was a pincer movement on the department of the CIO, one flank would be led by the mobile devices like the iPhone services like Dropbox would be leading the charge of the other flank. You could say it has already succeeded since for most users of the service Dropbox is already an indispensible work tool that CIOs need to get their head around. Having conquered the consumer tech world with over 100m users cloud storage player Dropbox it seems plans to repeat the feat in the corporate IT world. That crown already boasts Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, Zynga, Amazon, Yahoo! and to name but a few. Ireland awoke to the news today that another jewel had been added to its digital crown as Dropbox revealed plans to locate its international headquarters in Dublin. And, as it aspires to become a mainstream tech brand worldwide, the company won’t rule out the rapid growth rates enjoyed by Google, LinkedIn and Facebook in Ireland’s capital city. According to MIT, Houston conceived of Dropbox on a bus trip from Boston to New York when his hopes of finishing some work during the long ride were dashed when he realized he had forgotten his USB drive at home.Dropbox plans to hire between 30 and 40 people in Dublin in 2013, senior executives confirmed today in an interview with. He began working on what would become Dropbox in2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, then an MIT undergraduate. Houston holds an BS in computer science and engineering from MIT. His experience offers a powerful example of how a young MIT graduate can give the world something truly useful." MIT President Rafael Reif said in a statement about the 2013 speaker: "Drew Houston has made cloud computing available to people everywhere. (He also delivered one at Rice University in Houston.) He'll have a tough act to follow: Triple MIT alum Salman Khan of Khan Academy online education website fame delivered an excellent speech this past spring. Houston, who co-founded and now leads the popular Web-based file transfer service, will be delivering his address at MIT's 147th commencement exercises on Friday, June 7.
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