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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dropbox comes up
Playing it safe with marketing is the riskiest thing you can do | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (Figma CMO)
- ▶ 12:56 Brett Berson Like, do you kind of think that, you know, when you're in the early days of Dropbox, you're like a cool twenty-year-old and you wake up one day and you don't want to feel like 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:33 Brett Berson The early 20 tens, the best example is Dropbox. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:48 Brett Berson In marketing to the enterprise versus marketing to small business or prosumer, you're gonna have this very interesting experience because it mirrors Dropbox to a certain degree, but like in looking at the companies from a distance, it… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:26 Sheila Joglekar Vashee And one of them was the COO that I worked for at Dropbox, Dennis Woodside, who's gone on to be the CEO of Freshworks. 4 times in the scene
The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
- ▶ 41:18 Jeremy Epling I think Christina has an approach that probably a lot of other founders do, where like, you know, her first experience was at Dropbox, you know, and she was working on paper, and it was like a product that they were trying to expand out to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:18 Jeremy Epling I think Christina has an approach that probably a lot of other founders do, where like, you know, her first experience was at Dropbox, you know, and she was working on paper, and it was like a product that they were trying to expand out to…
Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury)
- ▶ 25:44 Imad Akhund So, I mean, a good example I have of this that gave me a lot of like humbleness around this is, you know, I was in the YC batch with Dropbox and I was like, okay, amazing idea, amazing founders.
How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem
- ▶ 18:42 Tomer London Um, but there was people, and specifically people who knew enough about using technology in their personal lives, like the, to get the Gmail and Dropbox.
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 17:48 David Cramer And I joined Dropbox for a couple of years and I'm like, I don't care about file sharing. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:32 David Cramer You know, given I was at Dropbox, there was that famous thing where, you know, Apple said Dropbox was a feature and I'm like, I'd agree. 5 times in the scene
From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff Shiner (CEO)
- ▶ 4:16 Jeff Shiner And you would hold that and then you'd sync through something like Dropbox or iCloud.
- ▶ 17:32 Jeff Shiner So we had actually put in this, honestly, really, really poor way of sharing through Dropbox, where
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
- ▶ 1:34 Brett Berson He also had an impactful stint as the VP of product and growth at Dropbox, as well as product leadership roles at eBay and LinkedIn.
- ▶ 1:15:00 Adam Nash But yeah, that process, each company I've been at, LinkedIn, Wealthfront, Dropbox, eBay, you know, obviously Daffy now, you can find these examples, and they almost always come from a little bit of inspired insight.
Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
- ▶ 1:41 Todd Jackson Its customer base is equally as impressive, with corporate giants like Vanguard and Accenture using Rider's technology, as well as tech companies like Dropbox, Spotify, and Uber.
- ▶ 20:33 Todd Jackson You mentioned L'Oreal, but you've got Accenture, you've got Vanguard, you've got Dropbox.
Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
- ▶ 1:11 Brett Berson He joined Dropbox back in 2011 as the third ever sales hire, brought on to help build the foundation for what would become a massive global sales org.
- ▶ 23:06 Kyle Parrish I felt like a researcher in a lot of ways that we were just asking a lot of questions, developing relationships, and I think one of the saving graces was just how warm the design community was, and that was a huge testament to, you know,…
- ▶ 25:20 Kyle Parrish And we did a lot of the things that I wished we had at Dropbox. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:27 Brett Berson I'm super curious to hear more about what did you end up figuring out existed in terms of differences between your experience at Dropbox and your experience at Figma. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:53 Kyle Parrish Rasmus, who's, you know, I actually had an opportunity to work with the Dropbox, and he was the first employee at Spotify, and, you know, these people were famous and prolific, and we got to spend time with them, and so then when you go to…
- ▶ 1:06:11 Kyle Parrish So at Dropbox, I had really great managers and leaders in Oliver J, former CRO of Asana. 4 times in the scene
The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
- ▶ 1:01 Brett Berson Oliver was previously the chief revenue officer at Asana and also led sales teams at Dropbox, including becoming its head of product-led growth sales. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:25 Brett Berson Before we kind of drill into a lot of these topics about how you, how you set up to sort of successfully go after enterprise, I'm interested in the last 10 years, you've kind of had kind of two big chapters, the first at Dropbox and then…
- ▶ 15:01 Brett Berson What was the story behind company value and user value in the context of Dropbox?
- ▶ 15:11 Oliver Jay Dropbox is a really interesting case study, and it is one that I think too many people look to emulate, but they just can't. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:15 Oliver Jay One can argue there if Dropbox paper
- ▶ 22:23 Oliver Jay We didn't have the dynamic that Dropbox and Slack had where you have 30% of a company using it, especially when you go outside of the big tech companies.
- ▶ 35:04 Oliver Jay I saw this at Dropbox.
- ▶ 40:57 Oliver Jay The benefit of hindsight coming from Dropbox, because at Dropbox, we tried a lot of different motions. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:03 Oliver Jay And so, uh, this is something I learned at Dropbox when I remember looking at our teams and we were set up at one, at one phase, we, we, we were split up by segments.
- ▶ 54:53 Oliver Jay The previous generation of SaaS companies, right, from Dropbox to Airtable and even Notion, and they're, they're horizontal companies.
- ▶ 1:04:12 unnamed speaker We had just ran AdSense globally at Google, and, um, she was at Dropbox for a short period of time, and we developed a, a, a strong relationship, and she was, she really opened up my eyes on, like, how to think about people management, um,…
A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)
- ▶ 6:49 Will Larson How long did it take, you know, startups who worked at?
AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
- ▶ 39:26 Dan Siroker It's not like Dropbox to iCloud where you could just, you know, copy the files from one to the other.
How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox)
- ▶ 1:39 Brett Berson Kellen had an illustrious career as an engineering leader so far, building and scaling teams at Etsy, Flickr, and Dropbox, just to name a few.
- ▶ 33:28 Brett Berson Can you potentially bring it to life by explaining what shared values looked like in the context of maybe Dropbox and what is shared values look like in the context of frame? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:03 Kellan Elliott-McCrea You know, I just started up in between in Etsy and Dropbox.
- ▶ 1:07:52 Kellan Elliott-McCrea Um, at Dropbox, Dropbox didn't ever care to talk about money. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:38 Kellan Elliott-McCrea You know, there were a couple of people in learning and development, both at Etsy and at Dropbox who, who really pushed, I think my level of tolerance and, and interest in kind of group dynamic theory. 2 times in the scene