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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dropbox comes up
20VC: A Framework For Approaching Risk and How It Affects Portfolio Construction | Lessons and Advice From Working with Dropbox's Drew Houston | Why Being A Learning Animal Is The Most Important Factor For Success with Ted Wang, Partner @ Cowboy Ventures
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings As for Ted, prior to VC, Ted spent over 20 years as a leading Silicon Valley lawyer, and a partner with Fennec & West for the last 10 years, where he worked with some of the most notable companies of our time, including Facebook, Dropbox,…
- ▶ 16:10 Ted Wang This is a Drew Houston, uh, the CEO of Dropbox told me this, this story once and I found it brilliant.
20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Now, Danny is a partner at Index Ventures, one of the world's leading venture funds with a portfolio including the likes of Dropbox, Skype, King, Bird, Slack, and many more incredible companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:36 Danny Rimer So whether it's Dropbox, or Slack, or the Microsoft, the three, six, five efforts, or what Adobe is magnificently doing, a lot of the enterprise is actually moving towards the consumer metaphor to sell software.
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 31:51 Dennis Mortensen So what I want is some Dropbox story for where they spent 10 years and kind of certainly figured out how to become a standard for saving files in the cloud. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- ▶ 13:26 Sarah Tavel And that is the bet that we will make time and time again, because, you know, when you think about many of the biggest unicorns that, that I think about now today, all of those companies look small in the beginning, you know, Airbnb,…
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings And YC is obviously the world's most successful accelerator, with alumni that includes the likes of Airbnb, Dropbox, Reddit, Flexport, and many more incredible companies.
- ▶ 18:17 Daniel Gross Dropbox was a small company originally when I came out here.
20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- ▶ 14:11 Jeff Fagnan A gentleman named Drew Houston was working in one of my companies, BitNine, and Drew was the chief architect of BitNine, and Drew wanted to start moonlighting to really try to build, you know, what is Dropbox today. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
- ▶ 0:51 Harry Stebbings And following that, Adam worked as an engineer at Palantir and Dropbox, and was an early product manager at Rubrik.
- ▶ 4:01 Adam Goldberg And along the way, I spent time at several research labs at Palantir, at Dropbox, and I was the first product manager at Rubrik, one of our portfolio companies in the enterprise infrastructure space.
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 8:26 Fritz Lanman And then the third was a company called Download, which pivoted into reverse, which was Greylock backed, which was picked up by Dropbox.
20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Single Founders, The Benefits of Party Rounds At Seed and How To Pre-Game Your Launch To Have Customers From Day 1 with Amanda Bradford, Founder & CEO @ The League
- ▶ 7:42 Amanda Bradford Before you can kind of expect people to leap from their Googles and their Facebooks and their Dropboxes to join your team.
20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success
- ▶ 9:57 Marco Zappacosta And it's not that that's the final answer, but somebody like Brian, who's, you know, on the board of Dropbox and Qualtrics companies who are a couple of years ahead of us,
- ▶ 23:11 Marco Zappacosta And actually I was reflecting on that recently, you know, with Dropbox going public, which was an awesome outcome, but you know, they've been at it for 11 years. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
- ▶ 11:44 Darian Shirazi And as we saw today with Dropbox, the IPO priced
20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Dropbox, AppDynamics, the list really does go on of incredible companies.
- ▶ 18:17 Jerry Chen The smallest unit that your customer gets value from, and that could range from an individual like you or me, Harry, hey, we get value from using Dropbox to kind of share or save our files in the cloud, or it could range the entire…
20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
- ▶ 27:07 Anu Hariharan There's no way for us to know who is actually going to be the next Airbnb or the next Dropbox.
20VC: Sam Altman, Y Combinator President on What Makes Truly Great Leaders, Why We Will See A Compression of Seed Funding & The Future Scaling of YC
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings For those that have been living under a rock, Sam is the president at Y Combinator, the world's most successful accelerator, with alumni that includes the likes of Airbnb, Dropbox, Reddit,