Dropbox, every mention
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every year anyone Alessio Fanelli 47Drew Houston 20Shawn Wang 5Varun Mohan 4Kanjun Qiu 2Stanislas Polu 1Felix Rieseberg 1Brendan Falk 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dropbox comes up
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 41:38 Alessio Fanelli Yeah, I think the text part, I think everybody by now has some sort of like cloud file thing, either Dropbox, Google Drive, whatever.
- ▶ 43:29 Felix Rieseberg We're going to be the Dropbox of skills, and we can just Simlink us into all the products they want to use.
⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
- ▶ 30:35 Brendan Falk There's probably some free open source clone that I could just download and host myself, and it sort of reminds me of the classic Dropbox hack and use comment, which is just like,
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 2:35:30 Varun Mohan I think kind of early on in the company, as Anshul said, I mean, there's stories of companies like Dropbox and stuff that tried, and Dropbox is an amazing company, fantastic company, that one of the fastest growing consumer companies of… 2 times in the scene
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
- ▶ 44:08 unnamed speaker Uh, we had Drew Houston from Dropbox on, and he's competing with Glean, who, uh, we've also had DD from, from Glean on.
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 1:39:33 Shawn Wang Dropbox. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:34 Alessio Fanelli Dropbox Dash.
Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- ▶ 58:43 Varun Mohan I think kind of early on in the company, as, as Anshul said, I mean, there's stories of companies like Dropbox and stuff that tried, and Dropbox is an amazing company, fantastic company, that one of the fastest growing consumer companies… 2 times in the scene
Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 55:25 Stanislas Polu It's a, I mean, I think the, uh, it was, uh, um, I think it was Pinterest or Dropbox founder at the time was, uh, when you're a CEO, you mostly have an editorial position.
Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- ▶ 0:07 Alessio Fanelli This is Salasio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and there's no switch today, but I'm joined by Drew Hauston of Dropbox. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:56 Drew Houston And we decided to basically turn, we went like 90% remote, we still, the in-person part's really important, we can kind of come back to our working model, but we're like, yeah, this is, everybody is going to be in some kind of like… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:25 Drew Houston Like, we have products like Dropbox Dash, sorry, Universal Search product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:15 Alessio Fanelli Before we jump into Dash, let's talk about the Drew Haas and AI engineering.
- ▶ 15:51 Alessio Fanelli Any thoughts on reg versus long context, especially, I mean, with Dropbox, you know, do you just want to shove things in?
- ▶ 16:39 Drew Houston And then, of course, like, when you're something like Dropbox Dash, like, it's basically building this whole, like, brain that's, like, read everything your company's ever written, and so that's not gonna fit into your context window, so…
- ▶ 17:49 Alessio Fanelli Let's jump into the Dropbox AI story. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:49 Alessio Fanelli Let's jump into the Dropbox AI story. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:03 Alessio Fanelli And that's kind of what also takes you to dash eventually, which is like, Hey, you actually don't really care where the file is.
- ▶ 22:20 Drew Houston You know, media generally, if you're making music or photos or video, that all kind of fits in the big file zone where Dropbox is really strong and that's like what customers love us for.
- ▶ 22:40 Drew Houston So with Dash, we wanted to make something that was really, like, cloud native, AI native, and deliberately, like, not be tied down to the abstractions of the file system.
- ▶ 23:20 Alessio Fanelli I think it's counterintuitive that in Dash you can connect Google Drive, right?
- ▶ 23:24 Alessio Fanelli Because you think about Dropbox, it's like, well, it's file storage. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:33 Alessio Fanelli So, you know, famously Steve Jobs started by Dropbox and he's like, you know, this is just a feature. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:22 Drew Houston I think it's, like, massively top of mind for every one of our customers, like, and me personally, and with my Dropbox hat on, it's, like, so fundamental. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:20 Alessio Fanelli I think today it's almost like, hey, if I can use Dash to like access my Google Drive file, why would I pay Google for like their AI feature?
- ▶ 35:27 Drew Houston Hey guys, like we have the opportunity to like really fix search or build a self-organizing Dropbox or environment, or there's all these other things that can be a compliment, because we don't really want our customers to be thinking like,…
- ▶ 35:27 Drew Houston Hey guys, like we have the opportunity to like really fix search or build a self-organizing Dropbox or environment, or there's all these other things that can be a compliment, because we don't really want our customers to be thinking like,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:05 Alessio Fanelli What's the most underrated thing about Dropbox? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:53 Drew Houston And so that was like a big motivation for things like Dash. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:42 Alessio Fanelli So you see, like, Dash and Stax being, like, the silicon brain interface, basically, for people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:42 Alessio Fanelli So you see, like, Dash and Stax being, like, the silicon brain interface, basically, for people.
- ▶ 45:44 Drew Houston And I'm like, maybe there's something Dropbox can do with this.
- ▶ 50:42 Drew Houston So I think it's, um, you know, it's been awesome to see, and then, and again, for, like, wearing my Dropbox hat, like,
- ▶ 54:48 Alessio Fanelli It's been 17 years you've been doing Dropbox. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:52 Drew Houston You know, it's tough, and if you're, like, a thirty-year-old, and you hire a forty-five-year-old exec from, you know, high-flying company, and a guy who was running, like, a ten-billion-dollar P&L, and came to work for Dropbox, where we…
- ▶ 1:03:21 Alessio Fanelli And when you started Dropbox, one article said, fortunately, the Dropbox founders are too stupid to know everyone's already tried this.
- ▶ 1:10:01 Alessio Fanelli Like, who should come work at Dropbox? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:07 Drew Houston Well, I'm super, I mean, today is a super exciting day because we just launched Dash for Business.
Why AI Agents Don't Work (yet) - with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue
- ▶ 1:43 Shawn Wang Um, but then you graduated MIT and you went to, went straight into biz ops at Dropbox, where you're, uh, eventually chief for staff, which is a pretty interesting role we can dive into later. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:30 Kanjun Qiu Our first company, Josh, uh, poached me from Dropbox for Ember, and, uh, there we built a really interesting technology, uh, laser raster projector, VR headset, and then we were like, VR is not the thing we're most passionate about, and…
- ▶ 1:00:06 Kanjun Qiu Yeah, the story is Ruchi, uh, who started it, uh, was the VP of operations at Dropbox, and I was the chief of staff, and we worked together very closely.