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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dropbox comes up
How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
- ▶ 22:31 Shaan Puri Even your near misses were basically correct, you know, whether it was, like, iDrive before Dropbox, or, you know, Rick, you were doing Branch Out, which was kind of like LinkedIn, and you, you were so close to, like, you know, the, the…
- ▶ 54:43 Jeff Bonforte Zobny was started in the same dorm room of Dropbox with Drew, so my founders of Zobny that I did and sold to Yahoo.
How the smartest founders are winning in AI
- ▶ 19:05 Jason Lemkin Now I did, instead of waiting for our designer two months to do a static, uh, thing and upload it to Dropbox and we forget where it was and lose the URL and have to do it.
Business Is Now On Easy Mode
- ▶ 38:58 Greg Isenberg It's the president of Dropbox, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:11 Greg Isenberg So let's just say, check out this, you know, we just designed Dropbox Dash.
How to build a $100M+ newsletter business
The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
- ▶ 44:23 Shaan Puri He ends up investing in Dropbox, because one of the co-founders of Dropbox is also Persian, and so he's speaking in Farsi, he's like, chumming him up, and he's like, come on, please let us in. 2 times in the scene
$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
- ▶ 1:08:29 Furqan Rydhan But like, every year since then, it was like seven or nine, like, because I think at that time, it was like, only a few had really reached, like, it was like, I don't know, Box.net, and Dropbox, and
I failed 22 times... then I built a $2.5B Company
- ▶ 19:36 Christina Cacioppo And I think, honestly, when I was at Dropbox, I worked with this product security team, and they were great. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:14 Christina Cacioppo You know, again, like the, the BATNA, like my worst case outcome was becoming a product manager at Dropbox, the height of Dropbox's power. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:14 Shaan Puri But it was, you're at Dropbox, you work on this thing called Paper, which was this, I remember like seeing Paper at the time, it was like this idea of this like collaboration tool. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:14 Shaan Puri But it was, you're at Dropbox, you work on this thing called Paper, which was this, I remember like seeing Paper at the time, it was like this idea of this like collaboration tool. 2 times in the scene
How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview
- ▶ 18:24 Shaan Puri Seven percent, but even diluted down, like, the Airbnbs, the Dropboxes, like, just the, even just the top five companies, they, let's say they net own, like, two percent of these when they go public.
10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- ▶ 1:05:47 Shaan Puri So classic, you know, go read the launch of Dropbox and Airbnb and other companies like this.
I Lost Everything Twice… Then Made $26M In 18 Months
From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview
- ▶ 10:05 Joe Lonsdale I remember, uh, my friend, studio red Dropbox, one of his partners there at his new, his new ventures.
This AI Startup Idea Has 500 Million Customers Waiting For It
From High School Dropout To $952 Million At 33 | Jess Mah Interview (#526)
My $100M Mistake + 6 Company Exit F**k Ups To Avoid (#522)
Ranking The Best And Worst Businesses To Start w/ Billionaire Investor Andrew Wilkinson (#386)
- ▶ 42:39 Andrew Wilkinson It was the, um, the like weird Russian looking ones that Dropbox was using for a while.
Asking The Founder Of Grammarly How He Built A $13 Billion Company
- ▶ 2:18 Max Litvin Uh, not to be confused with Dropbox.
- ▶ 26:10 Max Litvin Uh, hosting costs are like, even though we don't host much of the data, like we're not like Dropbox where we store files, uh, but the processing, the processing is quite expensive, especially if you consider that we have, uh, tens of…
Saas Companies that Anyone Can Start with Rob Walling
- ▶ 1:08:54 Rob Walling If you want to grow big and grow faster, then you enter a space like electronic signature or like calendar scheduling links, which we funded companies in both like Calendly competitor and, you know, and HelloSign competitor or whatever.
Dopamine Fasts, Cruise Ship Investing, and Elon vs Bezos with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Tiny
- ▶ 1:15:31 Andrew Wilkinson The other good one is drew the story of Drew Houston going into, they were talking about selling Dropbox Apple and Steve jobs just start saying feature, not a product.
Sam & Shaan Bet $500, Ozy Media Scam, Why Google is Dying, and More | My First Million #223
- ▶ 24:54 Shaan Puri You can go read original, like, launch announcements on Hacker News for Dropbox and other things. 3 times in the scene
The 3 Cheat Codes Startups Use to Print Cash | My First Million #211 with Julian Shapiro
- ▶ 19:27 Julian Shapiro So Slack Connect, Dropbox, PayPal, Calendly. 4 times in the scene
Why You Need a Chief Automation Officer | My First Million #208 with Steph Smith
- ▶ 27:34 Shaan Puri Like, I figured out what you do every day is you wake up and you copy these, these 10 rows from this Excel file into this other file, and then you, like, add this other piece of information, and then you drop the file in Dropbox.
How to Build a Unicorn Around the NCAA Reg Changes | My First Million #198
- ▶ 34:08 Shaan Puri You think, oh, that's in Google drive or that's in Dropbox, or, uh, maybe it's in Asana
Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197
- ▶ 1:23 Sam Parr Coinbase, Dropbox, and loads of different stuff.
- ▶ 1:18:19 Dharmesh Shah Someone I do know that I think would be good on the podcast, Drew from Dropbox I know really well, so that's an intro I could make. 2 times in the scene
How Course Businesses Work & How Irish Pubs as a Service is Making Millions | My First Million #183
- ▶ 57:11 Shaan Puri It's almost a billion if you add in the lease related write downs from large companies like Salesforce, Dropbox, Uber, PayPal, Zendesk, just getting rid of their, their, uh, real estate. 2 times in the scene
Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
- ▶ 18:22 Balaji Srinivasan They're building Dropbox or Google or whatever.
- ▶ 25:22 Balaji Srinivasan So Facebook, Dropbox,
- ▶ 30:44 Balaji Srinivasan Uh, and so what happened basically was, you know, while tech is busy doing these pastel colored product announcements, oh, you know, like Dropbox offers 10 more gigs.
MFM #163: How Chrome Plugins Are Making Millions & How A Studying App is Going Viral
- ▶ 22:00 Shaan Puri So, like, most companies now use Slack, and Google Drive, and Dropbox, and Asana, and GitHub, and, like, all these different tools that are all in the cloud.