Dropbox, every mention
31 scenes (2024), the whole family · ← back to Dropbox
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every year 2024 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
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.