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Dropbox had reached 100 million user signups by 2013

Kevin Egan · From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack · Jul 1, 2019 · at 3:52

Kevin Egan discusses his career trajectory and experience with freemium-to-enterprise product growth at Dropbox.

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“I joined in 2013, there was a hundred million people that signed up for the, ah, for Dropbox”

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The claim, plainly

By 2013, Dropbox had accumulated 100 million user signups.

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Assessment

Official company announcements and contemporaneous reporting confirm that Dropbox reached the 100 million registered user milestone in November 2012, prior to 2013. By May 2013, Dropbox had reached 175 million registered users, and surpassed 200 million by November 2013.

On November 13–14, 2012, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston announced on the official company blog that Dropbox reached 100 million registered users, confirmed by contemporaneous reporting from Forbes and SFGate.
In May 2013, Dropbox announced that its user base had reached 175 million registered users, growing past 200 million by November 2013.

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[1] pan.am [2] 247wallst.com [3] forbes.com [4] sfgate.com [5] weebly.com [6] thenextweb.com [7] sec.gov [8] dropbox.com

Dropbox S-1 registered users milestone 100 million "Dropbox" "100 million" "November 2012" blog post Dropbox 100 million users date announcement Dropbox 100 million users 2012 OR 2013

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