Season 2, Episode 5: The Dropbox IPO

Acquired is live on the scene following Dropbox’s public market
debut. From playing a central role in the early days of Y
Combinator, to having Steve Jobs famously label the company a
“feature not a product”, to pivoting from consumers to enterprise
to developers and back again, the silicon valley history runs
deep with this one. What twists and turns lie ahead for Dropbox
as a public company? We speculate!


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Links:


 Dropbox’s Y Combinator application

Original Dropbox demo video



Carve Outs:


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