Dropbox founder talks about the company's early days

Re:Dropbox founder talks about the company's early days by sabathmt on Monday June 04, 2012 @09:13PM (#4066839)

Great presentation, for anyone that hasen't checked out Drew's application to Y-Combinator, here it is:

http://sulemanali.com/blog/2010/11/29/drew-houstons-y-combin...

*On a side note, one thing (if you can) is to add a little humor/personality in your application:

Q:Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered. (The answer need not be related to your project.)

A:The ridiculous things people name their documents to do versioning, like "proposal v2 good revised NEW 11-15-06.doc", continue to crack me up :)

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Re:Dropbox founder talks about the company's early days by jaredsohn on Monday June 04, 2012 @09:50PM (#4066928)

While funny, if you reveal something like that and it is something you're not supposed to know for privacy reasons (don't know if that was the case here or not; maybe it showed up in a log entry and their privacy policy indicates that this will happen), and the information becomes more public you can get yourself into trouble (like 37Signals did when they say that the 100,000,000th file on BaseCamp was a picture of a cat. (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3076-i-heard-you-like-numbers...)

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Re:Dropbox founder talks about the company's early days by nl on Monday June 04, 2012 @11:50PM (#4067228)

It's linked from the YC "How to Apply"[1] page.

Don't try scaring people unless you are very sure of what you are talking about.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html

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Re:Dropbox founder talks about the company's early days by bobbles on Monday June 04, 2012 @10:02PM (#4066960)

I work for a document management company and we regularly see people transitioning from naming systems like:

1) Document draft

2) Document draft v2

3) Document final

4) Document final updated

5) Document final final

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