Dropbox number of registered users has just exceeded the 100 million mark

According to foreign media reports, well-known cloud synchronization service provider Dropbox registered users have just exceeded the 100 million mark, daily storage of more than 1 billion documents. But for the company's achievements, Dropbox CEO said the company is not going to stop, but plans to expand the company's territory to a broader area.

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"On this scale, when you can help users save 10 minutes or 1 hours, you solve the biggest problem in life, and we're just getting started in this area." Dropbox CEO Dru Houston Dew Houston, a networked storage online application, said.

Currently, Dropbox registered users have just broken through the 100 million mark, storing more than 1 billion files a day. In this respect, Houston says it feels the user has been given a great responsibility to help them save the most valuable memories of their lives, and as technology continues to evolve, people will later be able to access their own data stored in the Dropbox cloud through a variety of devices.

Houston said: "100 million of the number of registered users is a sign, which will Dropbox put to a new level, before a small number of elite companies have reached this levels." ”

In fact, in April 2011, the number of registered users of Dropbox was 25 million, with a daily file save of 200 million. By May this year, Dropbox had only 50 million registered users, with a daily file save of 250 million. But now, Dropbox has been installed in more than 200 countries and regions in the world, supporting 250 million different devices in 8 languages. local time Tuesday, Dropbox also added support for Italian and Spanish for Castile (Castilian Spanish).

Great effect

"It gives us a feeling that we are solving problems for the whole world, not just the Silicon Valley region," he said. We have a wide range of users: artists, high school football coaches, and even some theoretical physicists. But they all say that Dropbox's collaborative capabilities make it easier for them to share experimental data around the world and help them better carry out research. Houston added.

In addition, Houston believes that Dropbox is helping users achieve the promise of the cloud computing era, while Dropbox is expected to become the user's future. In the future, if our laptops fall into the water, just go to the Apple Store and buy another one, because Dropbox can help the user recover all the data, as if nothing had happened.

Houston then told us a story that made him feel: a father used his cell phone to record the moment of his daughter's life for five years. But one day, when he took clothes from the washing machine, he heard a discordant voice, originally he did not take the phone out of the clothes, the daughter of the phone photos of nature can not read. Luckily, the father then remembered that he had opened the Dropbox camera function on his cell phone, so that all his daughter's memories were preserved intact.

Rapid development

Dropbox today's size and strong sense of mission have attracted a large number of users. Houston revealed that the company had only 90 employees at the start of the year, but now employs more than 250 people, the fastest-growing year for Dropbox employees. Houston proudly said: "We can recruit the best people in the world regardless of the position." Want an engineer? No problem, who designed the iphone?

For example, Aditea Agarwal, the former Facebook department director, has now become Dropbox's vice president of engineering. Agarwal has helped Facebook develop "News Feeds" and search capabilities, the company's number 9th employee. "Dropbox is the only place where I can have this effect again," says Agarwal. "It should be noted that the ability to attract talented people like Agarwal is just one of the benefits of Dropbox's 257 million dollars in successful financing."

Dropbox has a huge blueprint, and they need more people to help them reach their dreams. Although the task of uploading, downloading, and synchronizing data from laptops, mobile phones and tablets seems simple, it requires a lot of complex work behind it. Houston says Dropbox has the opportunity to make your smartphone, TV and car smarter. In this field, Dropbox will become a canvas that can connect everything together. ”

The blueprint for the future

Because the company is still operating independently, Dropbox has an excellent opportunity to become a data tier, just as Facebook now dominates the social dimension. Although Apple, Google (Weibo) and Microsoft Tech have their own cloud storage systems, they may not be compatible with other vendors ' devices.

"No company can do everything, but if you have a Dropbox, you don't have to worry about which logo is on the back of the device." "said Houston.

Dropbox future coverage can be extended to refrigerators, thermostats and sound systems, but the number of users is still relatively small. So providing services to emerging market users without smart devices has become a major Dropbox mission. Houston said: "There are 2 billion Internet users around the world, the number may reach 5 billion in the next few years." Therefore, anyone who owns a computer or a mobile phone needs to Dropbox such a service. ”

However, Dropbox still has a long way to go if Dropbox wants to be a data tier that spans a variety of devices and can store personal memories and professional materials everywhere.

"In our time, it doesn't matter whether you're using an Apple Mac or a Microsoft Windows system, because we will continue to create miracles in another area, which is our first step toward the 1 billion user mark." Houston said at last.