Dropbox hires Google government because it starts its next section for growth

Dennis Woodside, the chief government of Motorola, in hand by Google, is exploit to hitch Dropbox, that competes with Google in cloud storage.

His departure came quantity once Google declared plans to sell the unprofitable Motorola to Lenovo for $2.9 billion, however two years once paying $12.5 billion to buy for for it.

Mr. Woodside unit Dropbox’s initial chief operational officer, news to thespian Houston, its 30-year-old founder and chief government.

In the recent days, founders were sometimes replaced as chief government by a lot of seasoned managers. But Mr. Houston is following the model set by Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook once he used Sheryl Sandberg as his No. 2. a lot of recently, Snapchat’s founders used Emily White, a former Google and Facebook government, to undertake to to a standardized role.

Dropbox, the aggressive start-up with a combine of hundred million customers, goes in a very essential section as a results of it tries to become a grown-up company.

It started a service for businesses last fall, and recently raised $350 million at a $10 billion valuation. Meanwhile, its chief rival, Box, submitted a secret filing to travel public.

“We’ve long blue-eyed Dennis’s leadership at Google and Motorola wherever he ran multibillion-dollar businesses and engineered marvellous organizations round the world,” Mr. Houston same in associate passing statement. “We’re thus happy to welcome Dennis to our team — I can’t imagine associate improved person to assist North american nation bring Dropbox to international scale.”

Mr. Woodside antecedently semiconductor diode sales and operations for earth at Google, and was thought-about a hot government recruit by totally different nation firms, more as Apple. partially to influence him to remain, Larry Page, Google’s co-founder and chief government, appointed him to run Motorola once the acquisition.

But but 2 years into male. Woodside’s turnaround created for Motorola, and once the less-than-stellar debut of the Moto X phone, Mr. Page set to sell the corporate.

“This wasn't an easy call to make, however I leave knowing that Motorola is in nice hands — presently and among the long term,” Mr. Woodside wrote in associate passing diary post, once the news was initial reportable by The Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Page same in associate passing statement, “Dennis and so the team have reinvented Motorola, with howling merchandise like Moto X and Moto G. i'd like him all the sole at the facet of his new massive job at Dropbox.”

After Mr. Woodside leaves at the very best of March, eating apple Rosenberg can take the role of chief operational officer at Motorola. Mr. Rosenberg, social unit was Google’s senior vp for product till 2011 however resigned once male. Page organized the corporate in associate passing utterly completely totally different suggests that, has remained associate consultant to Google, significantly at Motorola. Nikesh Arora, Google’s chief business officer, can keep government chairman of Motorola.