Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

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Post by revorad » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 12:51 AM UTC

Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application
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Re: Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

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Post by jasonlbaptiste » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 1:02 AM UTC

i would love to see how some successful non-yc company founders would have filled this application out in their early days. ie- joshu, pg with viaweb,etc. pretty fascinating stuff.

Re: Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

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Post by sachinag » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 1:13 AM UTC

This made me happy.

Re: Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

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Post by revorad » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 1:19 AM UTC

Got to love the guy's confidence.

Re: Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

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Post by dannyr » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 1:21 AM UTC

So he was a single founder at the time of his YC application. Did he end up finding a cofounder?

Re: Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

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Post by brezina » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 1:22 AM UTC

haha - sales oriented guy - i do more than that @dhouston!

Re: Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

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Post by kcy » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 1:25 AM UTC

hmm... the last line kind of surprised me, even though I don't think I should be surprised. Do you think the Dropbox folks ever look at your filenames and/or open your files? I guess I similarly wonder if the Google Gmail folks ever read my emails. I'm not really worried about them doing it in some systemic evil fashion so much as some random developer or sysop just looking through things.

Anyway, thanks for posting this. I'm a huge Dropbox fan and it was cool seeing a bit of their history.

Re: Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

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Post by SwellJoe » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 1:35 AM UTC

kcy wrote: post #7

hmm... the last line kind of surprised me, even though I don't think I should be surprised. Do you think the Dropbox folks ever look at your filenames and/or open your files? I guess I similarly wonder if the Google Gmail folks ever read my emails. I'm not really worried about them doing it in some systemic evil fashion so much as some random developer or sysop just looking through things. Anyway, thanks for posting…

GMail support people cannot look at your mail (though they can close your account, among other awesome powers). I imagine there must be techs somewhere in the chain that are able to access mail, but the GMail people who regularly interact with customers cannot.

Re: Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

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Post by SwellJoe » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 1:36 AM UTC

brezina wrote: post #6

haha - sales oriented guy - i do more than that @dhouston!

Does providing the blow and hookers really count?

Re: Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application

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Post by run4yourlives » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 1:42 AM UTC

Love the last answer.