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Budman: Backblaze stores about half as much data as Dropbox
“And at this point we are storing about half as much data as Dropbox.”
Ellis: Dropbox was the fastest SaaS business to hit $1B ARR
“They're the fastest company, fastest SaaS business to ever get to the one billion dollar revenue run rate”
Latka: Dropbox drove growth by gifting free storage instead of discounts
“Dropbox, they give away their utility value, not dollars discounts. They give away free storage.”
Accel and Sequoia have co-invested in only 8 to 12 companies worldwide
“No, no, they, there are a very few I mean, there are like I don't know, eight or 10 or 12 companies in the world that they have both invested in Dropbox being one of them, Clevertabs being another one.”
Detectify co-founders hacked Google, Facebook, and Dropbox before starting company
“My co-founders that are some really, some of the world's best white hat hackers, they have more or less, as part of this responsible disclosure scene, they have hacked, you know, Google and Facebook and Dropbox. They hacked Facebook with the help of Dropbox, e…”
Ellis: Dropbox built its famous referral program with under 10 employees
“There was less than 10 of us at the company at the time. I was the only non-engineer at the company”
Ellis: Ring founder Jamie Siminoff's PhoneTag inspired Dropbox referral program
“Jamie Siminoff, the guy that runs Ring, the super hot video doorbell company now, but he you know, prior to that, he had a company called PhoneTag, where he had basically done a ton of testing and came up with this double-sided incentive as being really effect…”