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		alisonkisk on Aug 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs coul... Why? That paid him to work on Python.

sumedh on Aug 25, 2021 [–]

What did Dropbox get in return?

icegreentea2 on Aug 25, 2021 | [–]

Here's Dropbox's goodbye post:

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/thank-you--guido

To summarize:

* Having THE language creator (dropbox was majority Python) around is super useful, especially from a soft-technical standpoint. Imagine the confidence boost a junior gets from that.

* Worked on mypy

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