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Re:Dropbox Reaches Key Profit Milestone by danieldk on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:09PM (#14213570)
there is a free tier you know...

I know, I have used Dropbox since 2010 ;). But the free tier does not contribute to the revenue of Dropbox. There are no ads (except for Dropbox Pro/Business :p).

Dropbox has some deals with Samsung and others for coupons for certain phones, but most of the 1B is probably brought in by paid subscriptions. Since Dropbox costs $10 per month (plus some Packrat and Advanced Team users), there are roughly 8 million paying users who bring in the revenue. Since Dropbox has ~500 million users, that would be a conversion rate of 1.6%, which seems reasonable.

Of course, I could be way off.

Re:Dropbox Reaches Key Profit Milestone by mod on Thursday April 27, 2017 @03:01PM (#14213883)
There wouldn't be 8 million paying users without a free tier.