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Dropbox

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Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Frustrated by working from multiple computers, Drew was inspired to create a service that would let people bring all their files anywhere, with no need to email around attachments. Drew created a demo of Dropbox and showed it to fellow MIT student Arash Ferdowsi, who dropped out with only one semester left to help make Dropbox a reality. Guiding their decisions was a relentless focus on crafting a simple and reliable experience across every computer and phone.

Drew and Arash moved to San Francisco in fall 2007, secured seed funding from Y Combinator, and set about building a world-class engineering team. In fall 2008, Sequoia Capital led a $7.2M Series A with Accel Partners to help bring Dropbox to people everywhere.

Recent Milestones

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  Dropbox acquired Mailbox for $100M. (3/15/13)
  Posted 3/15/13 at 10:50am via techcrunch.com
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  Dropbox acquired TapEngage. (1/3/13)
  Posted 7/17/12 at 8:52pm via techcrunch.com
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  Dropbox acquired Snapjoy. (12/19/12)
  Posted 12/19/12 at 11:47pm via venturebeat.com
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  Dropbox acquired Audiogalaxy. (12/12/12)
  Posted 3/15/13 at 10:40am via engadget.com
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  Dropbox added Soleio Cuervo as Design. (12/11/12)
  Posted 8/3/12 at 4:12pm
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  Dropbox added Adam Polselli as Product Designer. (12/1/12)
  Posted 12/9/12 at 10:57pm
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  Dropbox — Dropbox reaches 100 million users, founders not concerned about competing services (11/13/12)
  Posted 11/14/12 at 8:39pm via theverge.com
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  Dropbox added Boris Babenko as Engineer. (9/1/12)
  Posted 4/17/13 at 8:19pm
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  Dropbox added Allison House as Product Designer. (9/1/12)
  Posted 9/24/12 at 10:08pm
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  Dropbox added Morgan Knutson as Product Designer. (5/1/12)
  Posted 3/15/13 at 8:08pm
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  Dropbox acquired Cove. (2/27/12)
  Posted 3/15/13 at 10:32am via techcrunch.com
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  Dropbox — Dropbox Buys Cove To Bring Former Facebookers Ruchi Sanghvi And Aditya Agarwal To The Team (2/27/12)
  Posted 2/27/12 at 6:37pm via techcrunch.com
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  Dropbox added Ruchi Sanghvi as VP of Operations. (2/1/12)
  Posted 8/31/12 at 6:57am
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  Dropbox added Aditya Agarwal as VP Engineering. (2/1/12)
  Posted 3/14/12 at 8:54pm
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  Dropbox received $250M in Series B funding. (10/18/11)
  Posted 8/30/11 at 11:27pm via techcrunch.com
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  Dropbox added John Lilly as Investor. (9/1/11)
  Posted 5/16/12 at 11:07am

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1. Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Dropbox Acquires Small Tablet Marketing Company TapEngage (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Dropbox to acquire photo-focused startup Snapjoy (venturebeat.com) [edit]
4. Audiogalaxy acquired by Dropbox, announces end of streaming service (engadget.com) [edit]
5. Dropbox Buys Cove To Bring Former Facebookers Ruchi Sanghvi And Aditya Agarwal To The Team (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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7. techcrunch.com [edit]
8. Dropbox Raised $6 Million Sequoia-Led Series A In October 2008 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Dropbox Raises $250M In Funding, Boasts 45 Million Users (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Index Leads $4 billion Valuation Round In Dropbox (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Dropbox Buys Cove To Bring Former Facebookers Ruchi Sanghvi And Aditya Agarwal To The Team (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Dropbox reaches 100 million users, founders not concerned about competing services (theverge.com) [edit]