Dropbox, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 30Drew Houston 17Ben Chestnut 3Troy Carter 2Dylan Field 1Brian Armstrong 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dropbox comes up
(July 2021) Ben Chestnut: From Side Business to $12 Billion – The Accidental Triumph of Mailchimp
- ▶ 42:33 Ben Chestnut He's got this thing called Dropbox, uh, a guy, some other dude named Phil.
- ▶ 43:27 Guy Raz That was a game changer because all of a sudden you, you've got all these users, but I wonder, I mean, you know, the thing with, with like a Dropbox is they make their money from enterprise users, you know, big businesses that, that are…
Figma: Dylan Field
- ▶ 28:58 Dylan Field It was, you know, emailing files, or at best you put them in a Dropbox folder, but, you know,
Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit
Bombas: David Heath and Randy Goldberg
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 1:00:05 Brian Armstrong I remember Dropbox, uh, the CEO, he drew a house and one time he told me, he's like, we can predict our revenue quarter to quarter within one percent because it's a subscription product and, you know, it just, the growth marketing and all…
Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut
- ▶ 42:07 Ben Chestnut He's got this thing called Dropbox, uh, a guy, some other dude named Phil. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew
How I Built Resilience: Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey of Strava
Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
Dropbox: Drew Houston
- ▶ 1:31 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Drew Houston came up with the idea for Dropbox on the day he forgot to bring his thumb drive for a weekend in New York, and how that idea grew into a multi-billion dollar business.
- ▶ 3:53 Guy Raz Because when one person signs up for a Dropbox account and wants to share a file or document with another person, that second person also has to sign up for a Dropbox account. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:48 Drew Houston On their computer. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:41 Drew Houston I'm literally like walking around this party with my laptop, like trying to demo Dropbox to anyone who will pay attention. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:03 Drew Houston but yeah, Mike, we, we do the pitch, and then on Saturday morning, yeah, Mike Moritz shows up at our little apartment, Dropbox World HQ, and we walk him through it, doesn't say a lot, has a couple questions about competition and Google,…
- ▶ 31:31 Guy Raz So one of the things that I guess you've said is that Dropbox actually took longer to launch than other startups at the time. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:37 Drew Houston He was interested potentially in acquiring Dropbox. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:34 Guy Raz And, and he, he name checks Dropbox. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:58 Drew Houston Yeah, I mean, folks have been turning to Dropbox for distributed work since the beginning, and in fact, that was, I built it not to back up my photos, I built it to be able to work from anywhere. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:37 Guy Raz That's Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. 3 times in the scene
Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter (2018)
- ▶ 39:21 Troy Carter Spotify, Warby, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Slack, um, really great companies that we're proud of.
Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter
- ▶ 38:58 Troy Carter Yeah, yeah, Spotify, Warby, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Slack, um, really great companies that we're proud of.