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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dropbox comes up
Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:52 Zachary Bookman These are expensive, and you're not going to make up the cost of sales and marketing by selling 10 K software, unless you're like a Dropbox where you can, you know, or some
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:16 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is we have Dropbox and Uber and Facebook and Pinterest.
Raman Malik: Inside Perplexity’s Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | E1226 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:19 Raman Malik Dropbox, Dropbox, like with the referral program, Groupon and email, Pinterest and SEO, Duolingo, and just like a totally unhinged social media, right?
Jeetu Mahtani, Sales Leader @Hubspot: How and When to Go International and Crush It | E1207 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:30 Jeetu Mahtani Maybe Dropbox is an example.
Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:08 Harry Stebbings And when we look at those two, there's this generation of companies that are actually a real question mark, which is your Dropbox, your Box, your Twilio. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:03 Jason Lemkin To be at Dropbox at two and a half billion growing six percent.
Mark Roberge: The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise -Stage 2 Capital|E1176 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:50 Mark Roberge And then I've asked a lot of people from Chris Degnan, one of our LPs or the founding CEO of Snowflake to like, you know, um, Kevin Egan, who I did a podcast who took like Salesforce and Dropbox and Atlassian and Slack upstream.
- ▶ 37:17 Harry Stebbings Does having Dropbox, Tesla, da da da, does that really work or is it like, eh?
Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:49 Harry Stebbings Sure, someone who sold to Dropbox for-
Samir Vasavada: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires | E1171 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:43 Samir Vasavada And it was all people from big tech, all people that ran big orgs at companies like Dropbox, at companies like TripActions, at companies that were, you know, they were at Twitter, Meta, places like that.
Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:53 Harry Stebbings I think me and Jason Lamp can talk and debate a lot about whether your large enterprises, your boxes, your drop boxes, your, your Klaviyos of the world will actually be able to extract more juice out of customers.
Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:22 Harry Stebbings Uh, same with a Dropbox as well, which Drew would admit too.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:07 Harry Stebbings You're seeing the languishing of Box and Dropbox and all the kind of traditional SaaS providers and software providers.
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:11 Aravind Srinivas It's not that Google Drive killed Dropbox. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:09 Jason Lemkin You know, it feels like Dropbox has settled into that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:10 Jason Lemkin When we look at the boxes and the drop boxes, and I think both Aaron and Drew are honest here. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:07 Jason Lemkin I don't mind a box and Dropbox and a few others trade at modest multiples because the growth isn't there.
- ▶ 55:48 Harry Stebbings Can I ask actually one, we mentioned kind of the, uh, kind of hyper-growth companies that are now non-growth stocks, be it your boxes, be it your drop boxes, be it your sales forces, which 2 times in the scene
Matt Lerner: How to Hire Growth Leaders and Teams and Why in a World of AI | E1159 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:03 Matt Lerner They spent hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing campaigns, building products that, frankly, nobody ever used, and you can do that when you're generating hundreds of millions per year in free cash flow, but startups don't have that…
- ▶ 50:00 Harry Stebbings Like, you know, you're, you're Elena Verner's at Dropbox.
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:13 Harry Stebbings So I'm, you know, just getting so much trouble for this, but like your Dropbox, your box, your Twilio's with low growth, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:30 Jason Lemkin This is the Dropbox question.
Adam Gross: Why Startups Doing Paid Under $100M ARR are not PLG | E1145 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:36 Harry Stebbings So when we think about like the ownership of growth there from Salesforce, if we were to move to Dropbox, another of the iconic brands, what would be the takeaway from there? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:01 Harry Stebbings You mentioned the innovation there around customer acquisition channels for Dropbox. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:02 Adam Gross Um, I think it's interesting to think about, and I've certainly seen PLG businesses that got well past 50 on one channel, or even back to Dropbox, got well past 50 in one channel.
- ▶ 27:45 Adam Gross And, you know, arguably, you know, even Dropbox and GitHub, um, and in Heroku have fallen into this in different times. 2 times in the scene
Sean Murray: Why Discovery Today is F***** & How to Scale Into Enterprise Effectively | E1107 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:56 Harry Stebbings Like, when companies come and say, hey, we've got Slack and Dropbox
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:22 Brian Halligan I think VCs, I think they'll be very happy to sell their company to a HubSpot or Atlassian or a Dropbox or you name it, um, or even a bigger company.