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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dropbox comes up
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 24:54 Vlad Magdalin Like, making introductions to, like, really key companies, you know, like Slack and Atlassian and all Dropbox and getting us set up with mentors.
20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring
- ▶ 12:16 Jason Boehmig Compounding effect because we would talk to a lawyer at Dropbox, and that lawyer would tell us something,
- ▶ 15:07 Jason Boehmig And I actually think that's a unique thing about contracts is if you look at the legal team at Dropbox, and you look at the legal team at L'Oreal, and you look at the legal team at some of these professional sports teams that we work with,… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised over a hundred and twenty-three million dollars in financing from some of the very best in the business, including Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Thrive, Spark, CoToo, and then also some of the world's leading…
20VC: Benchmark's Chetan Puttagunta on The One Question To Ask When Analysing Market Size, How To Compete in Today's War for Talent & Why We Have Seen An Over-Rotation In Running Businesses Based on Metrics
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings One of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Twitter, Dropbox, WeWork, Snapchat, Stitch Fix, eBay, and many, many more incredible companies.
20VC: Why Passion Is Overrated When It Comes To Starting Companies, Why VC Is Overrated As A Financing Mechanism & Why You Should Never Sell Your Company with Waseem Daher, Founder & CEO @ Pilot
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings As for Wasim, Pilot is the third business he's co-founded with his co-founders, the first being Ksplice, and the second Zulip, which was acquired by Dropbox in 2014. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:40 Wasim Daher Dropbox acquired it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:46 Wasim Daher But for me personally, we learned so much doing K-Splice, being at Oracle, doing Zulip, being at Dropbox, and all of those experiences I think were quite influential in how we operate this company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:27 Wasim Daher In other words, the lead investor from Index, Mark Goldberg, we worked together at Dropbox.
20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Now, Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of the most successful funds of the last decade, with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Twitter, Dropbox, WeWork, Snapchat, Stitch Fix, eBay, and many, many more incredible companies.
20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
- ▶ 30:37 Zach Coelius So I was at the beginning, literally at the very beginning of Airbnb, Dropbox, Uber, Meraki, I mean, Pinterest. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Jeff Ralston, though, is the president now at Y Combinator, the world's leading accelerator with a portfolio that includes the likes of, check this out, Stripe, Airbnb, Dropbox, Coinbase, Instacart, DoorDash, Flexport, and so many more…
20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
- ▶ 25:02 Alex Clayton And these are names like Anaplan, Avalara, Elastic, Dropbox, Domo, Zscaler, Smartsheet.
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It
- ▶ 11:17 Rahul Vohra He ran growth in the early days at Dropbox, at LogMeIn, at Eventbrite, and he was actually the guy to later on coin the term growth hacker.
- ▶ 13:52 Rahul Vohra Uh, and this was created by Julie Supan, who led early marketing at Dropbox, Airbnb, Thumbtack, and lots of other great companies. 4 times in the scene
20VC: First Round's Josh Kopelman on Why Price Is Both An Art and A Science, Why Ownership Must Be Built on First Check and The Negative Consequences of Attribution in Venture
- ▶ 7:58 Josh Kopelman We offered Dropbox their first term sheet, and I'd say we lost both of those due to sticking to price. 2 times in the scene