Congratulations! What a consistent drama free run. Also, resisted an acquisition offer from Steve Jobs!
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#22I think the caption "The Summer 2017 Y Combinator Batch – Jessica Sitting with Dropbox Cofounder, Arash" for the image should be 2007? Or am I wrong?
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#23I like Dropbox and YCombinator, but this line near the end was odd: "Today is a big milestone for YC. When we launched 13 years ago, we never imagined that a company that we’d funded would one day go public." Really? What were they doing funding it, then? I hadn't realized that wasn't the original idea at YCombinator.
You don't need to have an IPO to be a successful venture??
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#24This is nice from a business-perspective. But, stepping back ... I'm sure that a lot of the folks here would agree that something as basic as file-sync should be a standard part of any OS, and follow a non-proprietary protocol. So whereas they have turned something that should have been a commodity into a profitable business, I'm not sure what we have achieved here.
It pretty much is a standard part of the OS. iCloud, OneDrive, etc.
It's the "non-proprietary" part you're not ever going to see. Someone has to pay for storage.
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#25Pictures of the actual checks :) https://twitter.com/sama/status/977215073386053632
ok, I'll be the one to ask. How much is this check worth now?
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#26Don't forget that Condoleezza Rice, a driving instrument in the War on Iraq and the death of a million Iraqis, sits today on the board of Dropbox.
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#27This is nice from a business-perspective. But, stepping back ... I'm sure that a lot of the folks here would agree that something as basic as file-sync should be a standard part of any OS, and follow a non-proprietary protocol. So whereas they have turned something that should have been a commodity into a profitable business, I'm not sure what we have achieved here.
It pretty much is a standard part of the OS. iCloud, OneDrive, etc. It's the "non-proprietary" part you're not ever going to see. Someone has to pay for storage.
Why would non-proprietary preclude paying for storage?
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#28This is nice from a business-perspective. But, stepping back ... I'm sure that a lot of the folks here would agree that something as basic as file-sync should be a standard part of any OS, and follow a non-proprietary protocol. So whereas they have turned something that should have been a commodity into a profitable business, I'm not sure what we have achieved here.
It pretty much is a standard part of the OS. iCloud, OneDrive, etc. It's the "non-proprietary" part you're not ever going to see. Someone has to pay for storage.
Don't be so sure -- IPFS provides a possible path. We will see if it works.
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#29Incidentally, Drew's relationship with the HN community is even older than his relationship with Y Combinator. Two weeks before we interviewed Drew and Arash, Drew posted Dropbox to HN:
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#30This is nice from a business-perspective. But, stepping back ... I'm sure that a lot of the folks here would agree that something as basic as file-sync should be a standard part of any OS, and follow a non-proprietary protocol. So whereas they have turned something that should have been a commodity into a profitable business, I'm not sure what we have achieved here.
It pretty much is a standard part of the OS. iCloud, OneDrive, etc. It's the "non-proprietary" part you're not ever going to see. Someone has to pay for storage.
It's the protocol that's non-proprietary, not the service. IP is non-proprietary but you still have to pay for servers.