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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Dropbox comes up
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.