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Dropbox is a cloud storage and file-sharing service that lets users store and sync files across devices.

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Max Schoening 01:02:46
… Uh, Dropbox is a great one, right? Like I think Dropbox is like such an interesting study where it was the little menu bar icon that was so good at syncing that ...
Elena Verna 4.0 00:13:10
… And I worked with Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey, Netlify, Amplitude, and others. So, are we absolutely crushing with paid retention?
Nick Turley 00:42:22
… And we were pretty quickly in organically in 90% of Fortune 500 companies in a way that I had seen maybe at Dropbox back when that was my two jobs ago where we had a similar story. And since then there's been more PLG companies.
Hilary Gridley 01:37:45
… (01:39:15): I mean I worked at Dropbox where I saw this happen all the time where we would acquire products that other teams internally had been working on and it's just like, it's heartbr...
Rahul Vohra 00:38:57
… They used Mailbox, which some folks may remember was also a startup, and Dropbox famously acquired them for about a hundred million dollars. The reason that they were well known, apart from the acquisition, is they were the first ...
Karina Nguyen 00:00:58
… She was also an engineer at New York Times, was a designer at Dropbox and at Square. It's very rare to get a glimpse into how someone working on the bleeding edge of AI and LLMs operates and how they think about where t...
Elena Verna 00:50:09
… And the percentage of those recipients sign up to become Dropbox users, and that accounts for 50% of acquisition. That is a stable earned channel that nobody can compete with, and it's only for Dropbox to lose, so to speak.
Drew Houston 00:06:41
… I started Dropbox more out of just personal frustration, and it really felt like something that only I was super interested in as far as file syncing. And focusing on ...
Alistair Croll 00:08:13
… like an invite list where if you invite someone you get an earlier spot in the invite that was there was a time that was the first time you know the Dropbox model of when you invite someone you get more storage that was cool the first…
Sean Ellis 01:14:56
… I think that what they don't realize is that before the referral program, Dropbox had amazing referral rate. Companies that are trying to copy it are like, "Why isn't anyone talking about a product?
Kim Scott 00:00:33
… Prior to this book, Kim was a CO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter and many other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University.
Jiaona Zhang 00:52:06
… So specifically for Dropbox, I think we did waste cycles where we would be like, "Oh, we see X happening in the market. Slack is really taking off.
Melissa Tan 00:12:12
… (00:12:43): Dropbox is massively viral. When I think also about Miro or Figma, those also are very viral products.
Varun Parmar 00:25:24
… I'm guessing maybe Box versus Dropbox is an experience you had there, or if not, what's an example of that that you've experienced, to make it a little more concrete even?
Pete Kazanjy 00:24:58
… le of this would be, probably the most famous example of an organization that maybe didn't get sales religion as quickly as they should have would be Dropbox. Dropbox has phenomenal early sales leadership.
Julian Shapiro00:20:11
… Same thing with Dropbox, sharing file links and you're seeing the Dropbox URL or GoFundMe when people share the GoFundMe page. You get the gist.
Yuriy Timen 00:13:47
… You think about what Dropbox has done around file sharing. That's an iconic example.

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Company

Dropbox

Dropbox is a cloud storage and file-sharing service that lets users store and sync files across devices.

People5

Mentioned In5

Transcript mentions

Max Schoening 01:02:46
… Uh, Dropbox is a great one, right? Like I think Dropbox is like such an interesting study where it was the little menu bar icon that was so good at syncing that ...
Elena Verna 4.0 00:13:10
… And I worked with Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey, Netlify, Amplitude, and others. So, are we absolutely crushing with paid retention?
Nick Turley 00:42:22
… And we were pretty quickly in organically in 90% of Fortune 500 companies in a way that I had seen maybe at Dropbox back when that was my two jobs ago where we had a similar story. And since then there's been more PLG companies.
Hilary Gridley 01:37:45
… (01:39:15): I mean I worked at Dropbox where I saw this happen all the time where we would acquire products that other teams internally had been working on and it's just like, it's heartbr...
Rahul Vohra 00:38:57
… They used Mailbox, which some folks may remember was also a startup, and Dropbox famously acquired them for about a hundred million dollars. The reason that they were well known, apart from the acquisition, is they were the first ...
Karina Nguyen 00:00:58
… She was also an engineer at New York Times, was a designer at Dropbox and at Square. It's very rare to get a glimpse into how someone working on the bleeding edge of AI and LLMs operates and how they think about where t...
Elena Verna 00:50:09
… And the percentage of those recipients sign up to become Dropbox users, and that accounts for 50% of acquisition. That is a stable earned channel that nobody can compete with, and it's only for Dropbox to lose, so to speak.
Drew Houston 00:06:41
… I started Dropbox more out of just personal frustration, and it really felt like something that only I was super interested in as far as file syncing. And focusing on ...
Alistair Croll 00:08:13
… like an invite list where if you invite someone you get an earlier spot in the invite that was there was a time that was the first time you know the Dropbox model of when you invite someone you get more storage that was cool the first…
Sean Ellis 01:14:56
… I think that what they don't realize is that before the referral program, Dropbox had amazing referral rate. Companies that are trying to copy it are like, "Why isn't anyone talking about a product?
Kim Scott 00:00:33
… Prior to this book, Kim was a CO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter and many other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University.
Jiaona Zhang 00:52:06
… So specifically for Dropbox, I think we did waste cycles where we would be like, "Oh, we see X happening in the market. Slack is really taking off.
Melissa Tan 00:12:12
… (00:12:43): Dropbox is massively viral. When I think also about Miro or Figma, those also are very viral products.
Varun Parmar 00:25:24
… I'm guessing maybe Box versus Dropbox is an experience you had there, or if not, what's an example of that that you've experienced, to make it a little more concrete even?
Pete Kazanjy 00:24:58
… le of this would be, probably the most famous example of an organization that maybe didn't get sales religion as quickly as they should have would be Dropbox. Dropbox has phenomenal early sales leadership.
Julian Shapiro00:20:11
… Same thing with Dropbox, sharing file links and you're seeing the Dropbox URL or GoFundMe when people share the GoFundMe page. You get the gist.
Yuriy Timen 00:13:47
… You think about what Dropbox has done around file sharing. That's an iconic example.