Dropbox
1 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 12, 2023 by Rob Walling · said 49 times in 26 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Rob Walling (37), Asia Orangio (5), John Warrillow (3), Zamir Khan (1), Jordan Gal (1), Einar Vollset (1), Craig Hewitt (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Episode 695 | Ideal Customers, Moving from B2C to B2B, and More L...
- Episode 711 | Finding Early Customers, Horizontal vs. Vertical, P...
- Episode 739 | Selling SaaS to Customers Who Don't Know They Have...
- Episode 725 | SEO in the Age of AI, Freemium, When Brand Becomes...
- Episode 710 | Is Coding Dead?, The "Right" Tech Stack, Funded Com...
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2023 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Episode 667 | Increase Your Exit Price by Decoupling Yourself fro...
- Episode 691 | Freemium, High-touch vs. Low-touch, Selling as an I...
- Episode 655 | Seat-Based Pricing, Can Churn Be Too Low? and More...
- Episode 650 | Building vs. Buying a SaaS, Day Job Constraints, an...
- Episode 643 | Feature Flags, Impostor Syndrome, and More Listener...
- Episode 642 | The Pros and Cons of Building a No-Code MVP
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2021 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Episode 565 | Correlation vs. Causation, Focus, Sharing MRR, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 563 | The Struggle, Calls to Action, Selling Above $1M ARR, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 558 | Thinking Through Funding as a Bootstrapper
- Episode 530 | Making Development Decisions, Regrets about Selling, and More Listener
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2020 21 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 504 | 15 Tools We Use to Run Our Business
- Episode 521 | A Roundtable Discussion about a Potential Recession, Working from Home,
- Episode 527 | From Agency to SaaS, Equity Splits, and More Listener Questions with Courtland Allen
- Episode 522 | Hewitt - Where Are They Now?
- Episode 511 | Raising Prices & Re-writing Your Codebase
- Episode 506 | Shutting Down and Starting Up with Derrick Reimer
- Episode 503 | Idea Validation, Expanding Internationally, Affiliate Programs, and More
- Episode 497 | Documenting SaaS for a Sale, Email Harvesting and Spam, and More Listener Questions
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Everything said about Dropbox, oldest first
Dec 12, 2023 negative
Walling: Freemium Delays Revenue and Is Ill-Suited for Bootstrappers
“If I was bootstrapping this and actually trying to make money on it, freemium pushes out your revenue, right? It pushes out that revenue line. And if you have a bunch of funding, that's okay. And you can play the long game like Dropbox did and the other freemi…”