Dropbox

“Yeah, yeah, Spotify, Warby, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Slack really great companies that we're proud of.”

“Spotify, Warby, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Slack really great companies that we're proud of.”

“Our happiest and most profitable customers were using Dropbox at work. And so, we decided to go all in on, on, for all intents and purposes, getting out of the consumer business.”

“And then I posted my demo video to Hacker News, and it hit the top of Hacker News for like two days.”

“He was interested potentially in acquiring Dropbox. We were still building, so we weren't really interested in that.”

“No, it was a series of conversations, you know, but not a lot, you know, it was like the equivalent of a few days. If you're, you know, a few coffee dates, basically, and I'm like, alright, I'm expecting to have to talk to the parents, and like, do all this st…”

“And I get a one-line email from Paul Grime. Saying, they like the idea, certainly liked your software, but you need a co-founder.”

“He was like, alright, well, in so many ways, he's like, well, you guys are a feature, not a product. You know, we're gonna have to build our competitor, and I guess we'll have to get to work on, you know, in so many words, killing you guys.”

“One thing we would always do is everybody would set up a shared folder called a Dropbox. On their computer. So I'm like, maybe I should just call it Dropbox. And that was, it was really that I am conversation where, where I settled on the name and I'm just lik…”

“We live in a world where it's easier to search all of human knowledge than my company's knowledge.”

“We had a handshake deal that night. So one business day turnaround.”

“We were very careful to get the product right through the beta, and then at public launch, we turned on the paid version, and we sort of became accidentally cash flow positive after that, because it was just growing so quickly.”

“This only became a mainstream need after the iPhone because most people had one computer at home, but then suddenly with a smartphone, everybody's got two. And for the first time, you need to get stuff back and forth very easily, and the only way to do that is…”

“We started recruiting the smartest people we knew from MIT as engineers. And so we would do these recruiting trips out there. Arash and I would go meet people in their dorms and pitched our first few engineers that way.”