[dorkitude]

Now if you were to acquire 49% of Mailbox, I might believe that. But you must understand our doubts -- it feels like every single time a giant company acquires a useful little startup, the users eventually (and often sooner than later) get burned by it.

I'm open to your Mailbox acquisition being the exception to this trend, but I hope you understand my healthy skepticism.

[encoderer]

Only in the startup world is Dropbox considered a "giant company."

[cududa]

Any company with hundreds of employees doing hundreds of millions in revenue is a "giant company".

[CapitalistCartr]

As he said, "On(ly) in the startup world . . . " In the rest of the business world, that would be a decent mid-size company.

[gwright]

According to http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html, less than 1% of all businesses have more than 100 employees.

[encoderer]

That doesn't really strike me as relevant? Many "businesses" are one or two people. Obviously "giant" is subjective but considering the largest companies are a few orders of magnitude bigger, I maintain what I said earlier: Only people who are immersed in the startup world consider Dropbox a "giant" company.

[biot]

Despite having 100 employees, I wouldn't consider a chain of car washes with 20 locations and 5 people at each location to be a giant company.

[shin_lao]

Just to add some objectivity to the debate, in France, between 250 and 4999 employees a company is considered to be an "intermediate size company" (as long as the revenue is below 1.5 G€).

I don't know the American standard, but I'd be surprised if it isn't similar.

Source: http://www.insee.fr/fr/methodes/default.asp?page=definitions...