Dropbox, every mention
14 scenes (2017) · ← back to Dropbox
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every year 2017 anyone Sam Altman 21Pejman Nozad 9Tikhon Bernstam 8Eric Migicovsky 8Drew Houston 7Shola Akinlade 4Paul Graham 4Craig Cannon 4Paul Buchheit 3Jared Friedman 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dropbox comes up
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