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Wu: Dropbox's top 1% usage customers were margin negative
“The commercial model of Dropbox incentivized, it was a team-based thing, number of users. It incentivized us to get really good at getting a wall-to-wall deployment. Did not incentivize us at all to drive incremental usage. In fact, in a very literal sense, yo…”
Wu: Dropbox's billing system was continuously handed off to summer interns
“Like at Dropbox, for instance, our billing system was built by interns every summer. Like it would get updated every summer because the only people we could convince to work on it were like interns.”
Balasubramanian: The Dropbox breach actually resulted from reused credentials from other leaks
“We saw this in the entire Dropbox leak, right? Like everyone said Dropbox had been compromised, But what these fraudsters had done had figured out username, passwords, and all these other breaches that actually worked on Dropbox.”
Scott Wu: Billing is a product surface, not a monthly workflow
“Billing was really honestly more of a product surface than a, like a once a month workflow.”
Yoo: Bottom-up B2C2B sales model is playing out in healthcare
“It's kind of the healthcare version of a trend that we've seen play out in B to B software. So, you know, you might think about Slack or Zoom or Dropbox or these products that you as an individual user can obviously adopt, but then what these companies are the…”
Chen: Horizontal enterprise products spread faster because all employees can use them
“Things like Dropbox, Asana, Slack. These are all things that everyone in your company can use. And so naturally is going to spread much faster because At every moment, each node in the network is gonna be able to have access to all 15 to 30 people around them …”
Chen: Dropbox maximizes user value through workplace folder sharing
“For example, when you first install Dropbox, the easiest thing that you can do is you can use it to just sync your Home and your work computers, right? And that's great, but really the way to get those users to become really valuable is for them to start shari…”