Dropbox, every mention

Dropbox: Drew Houston Nov 9, 2020 · 37 mentions

• ▶ 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