We could see this with our customers very literally. It was very clear that 2020 would be the year that the world permanently shifted from knowledge workers primarily working in an office, to primarily working out of a screen. First, was helping make sure that everybody is safe and we can support them.īut then it was pretty clear that this might be one of the most fundamental changes to knowledge work since that term was invented 60 years ago. In an interview with the Boston Globe, our CEO Drew Houston said, “It felt like the world was hit by an asteroid, and overnight everything was different. It all started with the sudden global shift to remote work. Their work and their ideas shape us as a company and inform our plans for our future.Īnd since 2020, those plans have definitely shifted in a way that nobody anticipated, but that has provided even more opportunities for Dropboxers to shape the future of work. Having a future-forward perspective and vision is critical to becoming (and staying) a major player in the industry.Īt Dropbox, we like to think that our evolution has been driven from the bottom up - from the brilliant and hardworking people who dream up, design, engineer, and market our products and platform. Trends come and go, customer priorities shift, and the world demands that technology either keep up or get out of the way. Predicting the future of any tech company can be speculative at best.

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