[smt88]

There is currently no way that 50 people (roughly the number of employees at Basecamp) could support a Dropbox-like product at scale. It's just impossible. At their scale, the technical challenges of maintaining a decent user experience (good transfer speeds, little downtime, no lost data, etc.) are enormous.

[jonknee]

Well luckily they have the revenues to have more than 50 people. There's nothing magical about Basecamp's size, it's just never going to be a dynasty.

[sobbybutter]

Why do you say that?

[noir-york]

Why?

Why do you need more people when you grow past a certain size? At Drop box's scale they surely must manage their backend at scale and not have people babysit servers. If DBX are using Amazon's S3 for storage then that's one less massive headache to take care of.

Just for comparison, Instagram had 13 employees when they sold to FBK and they sure had scale at that point.