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jacquesm on Jan 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Dropbox Succeeded and Syncplicity Didn’t

Rapidshare was pretty good too (as a name, the service sucks) and it surprises me that they never managed to expand in to dropbox's territory.

And with public shared folders dropbox is definitely expanding in to theirs.

underwater on Jan 29, 2011 [–]

There is a lot of money in what RapidShare do.

I was working for a company in the same field which was doing maybe a tenth of the traffic RapidShare and we got a cash offer well into eight figures. This was a company with four employees and zero funding.

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