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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dropbox comes up
Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:19 Paul Graham Um, this happened with Dropbox in the summer of 2007. 4 times in the scene
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:25 Aaron Levie Uh, everybody knows Dropbox. 3 times in the scene
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:15 Harj Taggar And we'd have like the Dropbox founder come back and say like, yeah, I raised like a series A and it's like really, really cool.
How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start? · Y Combinator
How To Find A Co-Founder | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:13 Harj Taggar It was Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox. 2 times in the scene
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:01 Kat Mignalek So many YC alumni, Dropbox and GitLab, for example, and hundreds more have launched on Hacker News.
How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:27 Jared Friedman A classic example of this is Dropbox. 3 times in the scene
Y Combinator Is Back In Person · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:50 Dalton Caldwell Look at when Dropbox was founded.
- ▶ 12:34 Dalton Caldwell Airbnb and Dropbox and all those folks raised back then.
Eric Migicovsky - How to Talk to Users · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:12 Eric Migicovsky Let's take Dropbox for an example. 8 times in the scene
Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:12 Kevin Hale Basically, it showed people kind of like Dropbox's like video demo.
A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 56:49 Austen Allred Another, you know, Dropbox as an example.
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:10 Dalton Caldwell Like Reddit, like Dropbox, Airbnb.
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:22 Brian Donohue So whether it was Mailbox or Dropbox or Sunrise with Microsoft or Parse of Facebook.
Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:14 Shola Akinlade Um, we taught Dropbox. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:22 Shola Akinlade Well, I probably I didn't expect to get your hosted Dropbox.
Fundraising Fundamentals By Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:35 Geoff Ralston Dropbox raised their first round at like a two or three million dollar valuation. 2 times in the scene
Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:58 Mathilde Collin Uh, I mean, so the thing is, so every single moment is super hard, and so one of my biggest learnings from YC four years ago when, you know, the company was super small, and every Tuesday we had people coming and talking about all kinds of…
Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:44 Peter Reinhardt Like, the Dropbox founders have called it stepping on a landmine.
- ▶ 47:04 Peter Reinhardt And our VP of engineering had managed a team of 150 at Dropbox.
David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:37 David Rusenko We were all, um, very jealous of Dropbox, who had raised a five million dollar, uh, post money, uh, valuation, and, um, and, and today I think that number would probably be 15, uh, maybe 20.
- ▶ 12:28 David Rusenko So if you look at sort of what Weebly's done, if you look at what Airbnb's done, if you look at what Dropbox has done, all, all companies have created their own market.
Carolynn Levy And Panel (Jon Levy, Jason Kwon) - Startup Legal Mechanics · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:33 Carolynn Levy Um, for example, a shared Dropbox folder is a good idea.
- ▶ 28:04 Carolynn Levy You put that in your shared Dropbox, you make sure it's signed, you make sure it's dated, and you save it in that safe place, and the company has it, you know, forever.
Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:00 Kat Manalac Okay, so we'll just, like, dive into this, and, um, and I'll start by saying, uh, you know, I've heard many successful founders, founders of later stage companies like Dropbox, Airbnb, say that one of the most important things, uh, that…
Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 51:59 unnamed speaker Interestingly, Dropbox is going public this year, just 11 years afterwards, and it turns out that, um, the slower liquidity is, usually the bigger returns you get, so is it a positive thing that we have this trend towards faster liquidity?
Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:50 Elad Gil So for example, when Dropbox and Box got going, there were a dozen different cloud storage providers, and it looked like potentially a crowded market.
- ▶ 40:38 Pejman Nozad That room is the exact room that I met, um, actually I made a deal with founders of Dropbox, Drew and Arash, in that room over T, and the first time I met Drew and Arash was at Y Combinator demo day, exactly where, um, Jeff is sitting now. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:35 Pejman Nozad The very first line, if you see all those companies are YC companies, um, you know, Dropbox, Gusto, Dodash, Mubox, and many others, and, and the idea is just investing very early, um, and, and we are actually very much, um, founders and… 5 times in the scene
Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:42 Paul Buchheit Um, so in honor of the Dropbox IPO, let's talk about Dropbox. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:01 Paul Buchheit I mean, uh, Dropbox, but what about Airbnb?
Sam Altman - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:26 Sam Altman So Dropbox
Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:12 Sam Altman And in many of these cases, Stripe, Dropbox, Airbnb, they took a long time to get the product right, but they were obsessed with that.
Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:24 Leah Culver Um, and for, uh, my last job was at Dropbox, and a lot of other companies do this as well.
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:20 Tikhon Bernstam Are bigger than, like, the Series A that Dropbox and Airbnb did with Sequoia, which I think was roughly a mil each.
- ▶ 29:20 Tikhon Bernstam Like, I mean, nowadays the typical seed round out of YC is higher than like the Series A post money that Sequoia did in Dropbox and an Airbnb.
- ▶ 33:12 Tikhon Bernstam I know that's an unconventional thing in the Valley, but, uh, Drew was initially a solo founder with Dropbox. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:17 Tikhon Bernstam Um, but I think a lot of, okay, Dropbox is a great example. 4 times in the scene
IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:35 Juan Benet And the big, you know, the big thrust of Dropbox for a while was just get usability right. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53:56 Craig Cannon Like, what is differentiated with Filecoin to, like, you know, Dropbox? 4 times in the scene
Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:58 Ammon Bartram Um, whereas the, the big companies, you know, Facebook, Dropbox, Apple, Google, are more likely to say, we care about,
Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:07 Sam Altman So you were in Y Combinator with Dropbox in the summer of 2007. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49 Drew Houston Uh, we kept working on the company until I started Dropbox, and then, uh, sort of drifted apart.
- ▶ 4:43 Sam Altman How did you guys, uh, validate the need for Dropbox? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:29 Sam Altman How long did it take you from the day you had the idea for Dropbox until you had a product where you, until the last time you used a thumb drive? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:23 Drew Houston So, for example, I wrote most of the first version of Dropbox, and certainly Rosh 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:03 Drew Houston We talk about Dropbox evolving from keeping files in sync to keeping teams in sync, which is a little bit of a departure, because when we started, we had this, we're like, alright, our goal is to make it so nobody has to carry a thumb… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:50 Sam Altman Speaking of the expansion, one other thing I remember, I didn't know you really well in the early days of Dropbox, but I remember being impressed by just how much you got done. 7 times in the scene
Jessica Livingston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:53 Sam Altman Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on.
- ▶ 27:43 Jessica Livingston You know, Reddit got bought, and that was very exciting news for us, but I think, like, when Dropbox started getting some traction, then we thought, like, whoa, this could be a contender here.
Jessica Livingston at Female Founders Conference 2014 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:41 Jessica Livingston So fast forward to today, and Y Combinator has funded 632 startups that now have a combined valuation of over twenty billion dollars, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Weebly, and Stripe.
Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:39 Finbarr Taylor Um, so I guess we have some people who actually, our kind of earliest implementation of the product was send us videos via Dropbox every day.