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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dropbox comes up
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 1:03:39 Balaji Srinivasan That's why, you know, like Steve Jobs told Drew Houston, Dropbox is just a feature, right? 4 times in the scene
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 39:15 Erik Torenberg Earlier when you were talking about the feature versus product, didn't Steve Jobs once tell Drew Houston that Dropbox was 5 times in the scene
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
- ▶ 11:33 Michael Truell Uh, especially with things like, we have our own file sync system that you can think of it as like, there's kind of two or three different sort of mini drop boxes within Cursor, where, you know, early on, uh, within Cursor, there's kind of…
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 4:02 Augusto Marietti So Travis had, at that time was this house up in Castro called the Jam Pet, where everybody would go, Aaron Lee would go, and Drew from Dropbox was the data.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 23:10 Balaji Srinivasan And you know the difference between, like, a Dropbox product announcement and, um, and a, you know, NYT story.
- ▶ 46:41 Balaji Srinivasan So the journals want conflict, and so our concept of, hey, it's 10 gigs for Dropbox or whatever, that might be helpful to the public, but it doesn't tell a story, and they want a story, so they're always gonna take what you do and put it…
Tech Executives: AI Has Changed SaaS Forever (Don't Fall Behind)
The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster
- ▶ 1:53 Wade Foster And, you know, think Salesforce and MailChimp and Zendesk and Dropbox and all this sort of stuff.
- ▶ 17:25 Wade Foster You know, so our first integrations were with things like, you know, MailChimp and Dropbox and, um, I mean, even Salesforce, uh, Zendesk, um, like tools like this that were predominantly like also PLG products at the time where you could…
The 2025 AI Search Race
- ▶ 9:25 Alex Immerman But there is a category of enterprise search in a market that has existed, and you can think of that as querying Box, Dropbox, Salesforce, all in one.
B2C2B in Digital Health, a founder's playbook
We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
- ▶ 9:00 David Ulevitch If I gave a presentation to somebody, do I have to go look in Salesforce for that customer record and see if the presentation's tied to it, or do I go look in Box or Dropbox or Google Drive?
Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B
10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
- ▶ 29:22 Justin Kan Um, and then, you know, even outside of Dubose, sometimes I venture into Soma and having some of those, you know, kind of early YC founders who have really made it, you know, like the Drew from Dropbox, for example, and just knowing, like,…
Towards a Decentralized Storage Network for the Blockchain Computer
a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- ▶ 17:32 Benedict Evans The people who said, oh, Dropbox isn't very innovative.
Security Markets: The Lay of the Land
- ▶ 12:59 unnamed speaker The fact that Amazon holds your data, the fact that Google holds your data, Box, Dropbox, means that they have liability for that information, and that's changing the way that liability discussions in cyber insurance happen.
a16z Podcast | Finding Go-to-Market Fit in the Enterprise
- ▶ 29:08 Peter Levine Dropbox is a good example.
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 24:30 Brian McCullough It was Dropbox.
a16z Podcast | When Organic Growth Goes Enterprise
- ▶ 4:08 Andrew Chen When you look back at Dropbox, the first thing they did to get traction was to announce on Hacker News and also Dig at the time was such a big deal, right?
- ▶ 5:00 Andrew Chen Things like Dropbox, Asana, Slack.
- ▶ 25:30 Andrew Chen Then the people that you hire for this end up being designers and PMs and engineers that are kind of this businessy metrics focused folks going back to Dropbox.
a16z Podcast | The Basics of Growth 2 -- Engagement & Retention
- ▶ 12:36 Andrew Chen For example, when you first install Dropbox, the easiest thing that you can do is you can use it to just sync your
a16z Podcast | Earned Secrets
- ▶ 14:31 Ben Horowitz oh my god, the differences in operating systems and like this version of DOS I have here and my phone, and like, this is a really hard problem, and that was Dropbox.
a16z Podcast | The Hard Things about Security
- ▶ 14:10 Stina Ehrensvärd The same key I can log into Facebook and Dropbox and GitHub.
a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
- ▶ 29:14 Christina Cordova For example, if you look at Dropbox, not an API first or API only company, but very much a lot of their really great and most successful APIs were focused on syncing, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 19:10 Benedict Evans Um, so if you want to open something from box or iCloud or Dropbox in PowerPoint or Excel or something, you have to jump through about five hoops and this sort of stuff that they could have cleaned up there that they haven't.
a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
- ▶ 11:19 Stuart Butterfield Dropbox, which I can decide by myself, hey, I'm lazy, I don't like to back up, and I want my same files on these two computers, nine bucks a month, great deal, I'm going to do it, but you can't unilaterally decide that you are going to use…
- ▶ 25:25 Stuart Butterfield Um, if you use Dropbox, and you're going to send someone a link to a file in Dropbox, um, and you send it via Gchat, then what they will see is a long nonsense string, like that's the URL. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable
- ▶ 26:05 Vijay Balasubramaniyan We saw this in the entire Dropbox leak, right? 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- ▶ 13:00 Benedict Evans And up to a point it was, but we all sort of end up, you either use Dropbox, or, you know, you start putting PDFs into programs that aren't 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
- ▶ 16:16 Scott Weiss If I think about all the gaming, all of the applications like Evernote and Dropbox and Box, they've all gone freemium and freemium just by its nature is I'm presented with a, you know, do I pull out my credit card here or there?
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile’s Own PageRank
- ▶ 6:27 Balaji Srinivasan And this file system is what Dropbox accessed and read and wrote to for your files.
a16z Podcast | Where is the Technology That "Matters?" Right Here
- ▶ 5:12 Balaji Srinivasan The iPads and iPhones and Gmails and Dropboxes and Twitters and things of that nature.
Decrypting Crypto: From Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs
- ▶ 6:36 Alex Rampell This gives a sense of scale of how many computers are running this thing concurrently, as opposed to if you're storing something on a database at Dropbox or at Box or at Amazon S three, like that's one data center.