“We expect to be in central Dublin,” she said.įrom talking to Dropbox, I get the giddy sense that it is shaping up to be a next generation IT company of scale and its ambition is apparent when you see how the product is manifesting.ĭropbox is a free cloud service that lets users bring all photos, docs and videos into a folder that can be accessed on any PC, Mac, iOS, BlackBerry or Android device and across a variety of web browsers. Lohrasbpour said that the company will begin its search for new offices in January. “We will start 2013 with plans to hire 30 to 40 people in the first year and it is very likely that in future years we will grow as quickly in Europe as we have in the US.” Our US operations have doubled in the last seven months in terms of employee headcount and so we are rapidly growing and we expect the Dublin operation to follow the same path because our European user base is expanding as well. We thought long and hard about what places in Europe would allow u to do the best job from both a sales support perspective and technical sales perspective and we chose Dublin. “Over one third of our 100m users are in Europe and we decided it was high time to support them closer to home. “Everything we do is through the lens of what would be best for our users,” explained Mitra Lohrasbpour, head of business development at Dropbox whom I met at IDA Ireland’s Dublin offices this morning. If the consumerisation of IT was a pincer movement on the department of the CIO, one flank would be led by the mobile devices like the iPhone services like Dropbox would be leading the charge of the other flank. You could say it has already succeeded since for most users of the service Dropbox is already an indispensible work tool that CIOs need to get their head around. Having conquered the consumer tech world with over 100m users cloud storage player Dropbox it seems plans to repeat the feat in the corporate IT world.
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Ireland awoke to the news today that another jewel had been added to its digital crown as Dropbox revealed plans to locate its international headquarters in Dublin. And, as it aspires to become a mainstream tech brand worldwide, the company won’t rule out the rapid growth rates enjoyed by Google, LinkedIn and Facebook in Ireland’s capital city. Dropbox plans to hire between 30 and 40 people in Dublin in 2013, senior executives confirmed today in an interview with.
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