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Houston: Dropbox reaches 500k paying businesses and $2.5B in revenue

Drew Houston · Are AI Agents Further Away Than We Think? | Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Joins TBPN · Oct 23, 2025 · at 18:20

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston discusses Dropbox's business scale, profitability, and customer base.

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“We have half a million paying businesses on Dropbox, two and a half billion in revenue.”

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The claim, plainly

Dropbox has 500,000 paying business customers and generates $2.5 billion in annual revenue.

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Assessment

On the October 23, 2025 TBPN podcast, then-CEO Drew Houston stated that Dropbox had approximately half a million paying business customers and $2.5 billion in revenue. Both figures are corroborated by Dropbox's SEC filings and financial disclosures around that time. In its FY 2024 Form 10-K and Q3 2025 earnings disclosures (period ending September 30, 2025), Dropbox reported an existing base of more than 575,000 paying businesses/teams. Furthermore, Dropbox reported full-year revenue of $2.548 billion in FY 2024 and $2.521 billion in FY 2025, while maintaining an Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) run rate consistently between $2.52 billion and $2.57 billion across 2024 and 2025.

Dropbox SEC Form 10-K for FY 2024 reported more than 575,000 paying Dropbox Business teams and $2.548 billion in total annual revenue.
Dropbox Q3 2025 financial release (for the period ending September 30, 2025) cited an existing base of 575,000 paying businesses and total ARR of $2.536 billion.
Dropbox FY 2025 SEC disclosures reported total revenue of $2.521 billion and ending ARR of $2.526 billion.

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[1] sec.gov [2] gcs-web.com [3] dropbox.com [4] builtin.com [5] gcs-web.com [6] gcs-web.com [7] saastr.com

Dropbox Q3 2025 revenue paying users ARR SEC 10-Q Dropbox 2024 10-K revenue paying users annual revenue 2.5 billion Dropbox 500000 business teams paying customers ARR revenue Dropbox Q2 2025 revenue ARR paying users SEC 10-Q

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