Congrats Dropbox • Hacker News Board

Re: Congrats Dropbox

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Post by izzygomez » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 5:59 PM UTC

dhouston wrote: post #90

Thank you Paul and Jessica for taking a chance on us — we wouldn’t be here without you and YC :) And thank you HN — I’m pretty sure the upvotes on the original screencast helped us get into YC and on Paul & Jessica’s radar to begin with! Even you BrandonM — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 — my favorite HN comment thread of all time :)

Congrats Drew!

One of the highlights of my MIT experience was going to your ~yearly tech talks that you did at the beginning of the fall semester. I’m excited to see Dropbox continue to grow as a company. :)

Re: Congrats Dropbox

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Post by bsvalley » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:02 PM UTC

maxxxxx wrote: post #65

bsvalley wrote: post #54

not the best time to go public :) the stock market is about to take a serious hit.

Isn't that the best time to IPO? "Sell high..."

From an employee perspective, sure. Pump and dump is what you'd be looking for. But technically speaking you want your stock to go up as a company. Isn't it the whole point?

Re: Congrats Dropbox

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Post by johndubchak » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

pashabitz wrote: post #60

jl wrote: post #29

Incidentally, 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: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Man the comments on this. HN gold.

+1

Re: Congrats Dropbox

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Post by mediaman » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:08 PM UTC

bsvalley wrote: post #54

not the best time to go public :) the stock market is about to take a serious hit.

Wouldn't that be the best time to go public? Before valuations drop?

Usually you don't want to sell your stock to the public after it's crashed.

Re: Congrats Dropbox

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:09 PM UTC

dhouston wrote: post #90

Thank you Paul and Jessica for taking a chance on us — we wouldn’t be here without you and YC :) And thank you HN — I’m pretty sure the upvotes on the original screencast helped us get into YC and on Paul & Jessica’s radar to begin with! Even you BrandonM — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 — my favorite HN comment thread of all time :)

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Re: Congrats Dropbox

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Post by yani » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:09 PM UTC

I just wanted to point out that it took 13 years to reach IPO. Hard work, dedication, but most importantly time. Lots of founders nowadays forget that "Rome wasn't built in a day." Congratulations to team Dropbox and team YCombinator.

Re: Congrats Dropbox

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Post by neals » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:09 PM UTC

So in those 11 years, did YCombinater make any money on Dropbox? Or is incubating more of a 'long term' investment?

Re: Congrats Dropbox

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Post by TheGrassyKnoll » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:10 PM UTC

matte_black wrote: post #99

Is Dropbox a buy right now at ~$30? What do you think.

Trading at what 10 x sales ? That's a rich valuation. They've gotta show some impressive growth and get more to the bottom line or its coming back to earth.

Re: Congrats Dropbox

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Post by nick007 » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:12 PM UTC

dhouston wrote: post #90

Thank you Paul and Jessica for taking a chance on us — we wouldn’t be here without you and YC :) And thank you HN — I’m pretty sure the upvotes on the original screencast helped us get into YC and on Paul & Jessica’s radar to begin with! Even you BrandonM — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 — my favorite HN comment thread of all time :)

Love that Drew posted this from the stock exchange floor this morning

Re: Congrats Dropbox

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Post by nathan_f77 » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 6:12 PM UTC

gigatexal wrote: post #74

Congrats to dropbox and YC as well. Side note: what does Dropbox use to build the UI for their desktop app? I think it's written in python no? so what UI do they use?

I was looking at Python GUI libraries a few days ago, and it looks like Dropbox uses PyQt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyQt#Notable_applications_that...

(That information might be incorrect or out-of-date.)