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Nozad was one of the first investors in Dropbox
“I actually became one of the first investors in In Dropbox”
Fushman: Dropbox conducted a major reorganization every six months while scaling
“And so, yeah, I think every six months we did a pretty significant reorg.”
Fushman: 70% of Dropbox users were located outside North America
“Dropbox had 70% of its users outside of North America, and the biggest chunk of those were in Europe”
Sean Ellis coined the term 'growth hacker' while at Dropbox
“Sean Ellis invented the term when he worked at Dropbox”
Dropbox's Internal Slack Competitor Product Was a Big Flop
“And then when I was at Dropbox, I was responsible internally for kind of trying to build a Slack like product, basically a product that would allow communication on top of like the documents that are in, in, in Dropbox. And we just, we really, really didn't fi…”
Houston: Dropbox reached millions of customers with 10 to 15 employees
“When we were building Dropbox, like our team was only maybe 10, 15 people when we were reaching millions of people millions of customers.”
Dropbox analyzed its entire interview database to identify top hiring bar keepers
“The way that we wanted to find people who could potentially replace Arash, we analyzed who said no more often and who was right in the hiring decisions more often. Like we took the entire database of our interviews for the company, and then we found those two …”
Partovi: Dropbox hosted intern Parents Weekend to convince family members
“Dropbox did a lot of innovation in terms of their intern program. For example, they had a parents weekend where they would invite the parents of the interns to come just so that they would feel comfortable.”
Partovi: Dropbox spent over a year recruiting Head of Engineering Aditya Agarwal
“It took more than a year to convince Aditya Agarwal to join as a head of engineering, for example.”
Daher: Pilot's lead investor Mark Goldberg previously worked with him at Dropbox
“I mean, for us, our investors were all people that we had already known. In other words, the lead investor from Index, Mark Goldberg, we worked together at Dropbox.”
Patel: Homebrew's first investment was Clementine, later acquired by Dropbox
“Our first investment for homebrew was a company called Clementine, and it was kind of a joint effort between us and the founders in terms of spending time in a particular problem area and then coming up with a product idea. So it was almost an incubation of so…”
Malik: Early adoption of unique channels drove growth for Dropbox and Pinterest
“Dropbox, Dropbox, like with the referral program, Groupon and email, Pinterest and SEO, Duolingo, and just like a totally unhinged social media, right? All of them were kind of first to this concept and it really, really worked.”