Comment by notahacker

15 years ago

Gotta agree with this assessment.

I've found deployment to Heroku whilst tinkering with side projects fantastic, whilst Salesforce is the bane of my life in the day job. And whilst they have the in-house infrastructure to actually reduce Heroku prices, the Salesforce focus on the enterprise market hints that they're more likely to raise them.

Congratulations to the Heroku team though. Is it DropBox's turn next?

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samratjp  15 years ago

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Dropbox became the first YC company to hit IPO.

  • mikeryan  15 years ago

    I actually would be surprised if Dropbox exited via IPO. I think their offering fits in with a lot of large companies profiles. Dropbox could easily fit into a portfolio of Google, Microsoft, even Cisco.

    explaining Cisco - Cisco seems to be trying to break into the "Digital Home" market with things like FlipVideo and some other video services. Dropbox would make a great cloud storage play for media services.

    • samratjp  15 years ago

      They are obviously swinging for the fences, especially with Sequoia involved. It's fair to expect that they would aim for a 9 figure exit. IPO or not.

      Interesting case about Cisco. I would've also thrown in Apple because of their huge war chest and select big acquisitions. Dropbox could easily outdo MobileMe. Then again, I'm sure Google wouldn't mind getting a GDrive finally.

      But then, there's facebook!(Sure, they got Drop.io, but facebook loves grabbing startups away before Google get to them)

    • jaen  15 years ago

      Dropbox uses Amazon S3 for their storage. Google and Microsoft have their own cloud storage backends - if they did acquire Dropbox, they would probably throw away most of the technology, making an acquisition somewhat less likely.

alnayyir  15 years ago

>Congratulations to the Heroku team though. Is it DropBox's turn next?

Shut up before you jinx us all.

  • StavrosK  15 years ago

    Jinx us? What could be better? You get to build a product with a clear roadmap, a vast market of disgruntled users of the product that went to shit and basically guaranteed success.

    I wonder if I should start building Heroku 2 now...