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Episode 143 — Dilly-Dallying Dropbox

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Dropbox’s S-1 and why the company is a success but still a disappointment. Plus, why companies should go public sooner. Presented by WordPress.com: Get 15% off on a new site by visiting WordPress.com/Exponent. Links Ben Thompson: The Dropbox Comp — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Dropbox’s Cost of Revenue — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Battle of the Box — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Dropbox Leaves AWS — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Does Uber Have a Strategy Problem — Stratechery Daily Update Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter … Continue reading Episode 143 — Dilly-Dallying Dropbox

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you?

0:03.0

I'm doing pretty good. How are you?

0:04.9

I'm doing well. Before the show, you sent me a photo of a new addition to your family.

0:12.3

Oh, yeah, I think we'll have seen that on Instagram. Yeah, we got a puppy much to my, so this is how it goes. I, you know, I had a dog growing up. I understood what work goes into it.

0:20.9

I, the family, of course, always wanted a dog. And I kept saying, no, no, no, no. In a moment

0:26.3

of weakness, I gave in. And we had the dog. And as predicted, I'm willing to take care of it.

0:32.1

And it's a pain in the rear end, and she pees and poops. And and of course the worst part of it is you end up getting attached to the dog

0:38.1

and then you're and then it's then you're host once you're attached you're done i know it's terrible

0:42.8

the stupid little dog is running my life it's terrible there you go so hopefully no barking during

0:47.1

the podcast but we she was here last week and did okay and she's she's kind of knocked out so

0:51.6

this is this is uh the new season's garbage truck song that we have.

0:56.5

We can't hear the garbage truck.

0:57.7

We now have a puppy instead.

0:59.4

Well, it is starting to get warmer here, and I had to close all the windows because

1:03.0

what great about this, my new offices, I have not just multiple windows, but they're on

1:08.3

different walls so you can get kind of a breeze going through.

1:10.7

But there is some, it sounds like some lawn cutting or some lawn milling going on.

1:15.2

And so the windows are closed. It's a little toasty. But we are here. We are powering through.

1:20.4

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