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Sad, Drew had said it's not going anywhere when the acquisition was announced. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5381572 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i

• timdorr 11y ago
  To be fair, that was 3 years ago. A lot can change in that amount of time.
  • jacquesm 11y ago
    Yes, they could do a spin-out.
• jacquesm 11y ago
  Executive promises at the time of an acquisition mean absolutely nothing, their main goal is to reduce break-off risk (both of users and employees) due to change of control.
  • staunch 11y ago
    It's far more likely that he was overly optimistic about Mailbox's chances of success at Dropbox. Founders are notoriously delusional about this kind of thing. Dropbox wasn't worried about maintaining the small existing Mailbox userbase, they were betting they could grow it by millions of users. When it didn't work, it messed up their plans (and promises). Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
    • jacquesm 11y ago
      > Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. As a CEO I'm not sure which of those two explanations I'd prefer.
      • joslin01 11y ago
        Stupidity because people who act in malice are dicks. You can choose to be nice, but it's inevitable you'll be stupid at one point or another.