WFH Creates Opportunity That’s ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’: Dropbox CEO
The “biggest change” emanating from COVID-19 “is that we'll look back on 2020 as the year where the world moved from working out of offices to working out of screens,” Dropbox CEO Andrew Houston told a Jefferies virtual investor conference…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
Wednesday. “We believe this is a permanent shift.” In the “brave new world” of working out of screens, “if you were to minimize the Zoom window, underneath is this huge mess of browser tabs everywhere,” he said. “There are all these new pain points around.” It’s the “exhausting and distracting and overwhelming and fragmented nature of this modern work that creates a massive opportunity.” It’s an opportunity that’s “hiding in plain sight,” he said. “I see it as a major tailwind in the long run for Dropbox” as a marketer of remote-work productivity tools, he said.