Dropbox said it added over 300 employees to the company in 2013, and it showed.
Every area was crammed full of desks as well as LED art, a jam room for musical instruments, and sculptures of its AK-47-toting velociraptor mascot (that I just had to take a selfie with). With so many people walking around, wheeled-locomotion had become too dangerous to attempt. There were lines of unfurnished meeting rooms, and a whole wing of the office was completely uninhabited.īut when I went by for its latest enterprise press event in December, it was already starting to feel claustrophobic. With so much ground to cover, employees would often ride scooters and skateboard-like Ripsticks over its polished cement floors. Dropbox had less than half the number of employees needed to fill it. When I visited the single-floor 185 Berry location a few years ago, it was practically empty. Originally that office was 87,000 square feet, but then Dropbox expanded to more of the building to occupy a total of 200,000 square feet. Kilroy Realty put out a press release bragging about leasing the space to Dropbox earlier today.īack in 2012, Dropbox moved from an 11,000 square foot Mid-Market office into its current spot at 185 Berry St in the China Basin area of San Francisco’s South Park district.
That’s why it’s just signed a 12-year lease on a second office a 10-minute walk away at 333 Brannan to house spillover of its 500 employees, sources close to the company tell me. Dropbox is growing so fast it will soon run out of room at its San Francisco headquarters.
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