<story><title>Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/dropbox-secures-600-million-credit-line-ahead-of-expected-ipo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shubhamjain</author><text>One concern about Dropbox I have is its inability to establish itself beyond its File Storage &amp;#x2F; Syncing software. Salesforce.com, in comparison, has been acquiring companies left and right. Notable acquisitions of Dropbox, like Mailbox, have either shut down, or are nowhere on the impact map. As Dropbox user (albeit a free one), I don&amp;#x27;t find it useful for anything beyond synced storage (if there is any new addition in their interface, I might have missed it). After I started uploading pics on Google photos, I have little to store on Dropbox.&lt;p&gt;Synced storage might be big enough problem for it to continue to grow bigger, but I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s a meaningful moat.  What if the storage + software gets commoditized to an extent that it becomes essentially free for most people?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blowski</author><text>Why do they need to expand beyond that? Am I idealistic to say a company can survive just by doing something really well. Salesforce is hardly a paragon of a well-executed clear and consistent vision.&lt;p&gt;I pay Dropbox because I can rely on their backups any place at any time, not because their storage is cheap.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/dropbox-secures-600-million-credit-line-ahead-of-expected-ipo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shubhamjain</author><text>One concern about Dropbox I have is its inability to establish itself beyond its File Storage &amp;#x2F; Syncing software. Salesforce.com, in comparison, has been acquiring companies left and right. Notable acquisitions of Dropbox, like Mailbox, have either shut down, or are nowhere on the impact map. As Dropbox user (albeit a free one), I don&amp;#x27;t find it useful for anything beyond synced storage (if there is any new addition in their interface, I might have missed it). After I started uploading pics on Google photos, I have little to store on Dropbox.&lt;p&gt;Synced storage might be big enough problem for it to continue to grow bigger, but I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s a meaningful moat.  What if the storage + software gets commoditized to an extent that it becomes essentially free for most people?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>james_pm</author><text>Paper is a great little part of Dropbox that is showing some real potential. They recently added task dates and assignments, and some nice formatting options (like code blocks with syntax highlighting).</text></comment>