Application YC di Dropbox

Summer 2007Public

Dropbox ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Summer 2007 come azienda B2B. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.

Batch YC: Summer 2007
Settore: B2BProductivity
Dimensione team: 4000
Stato: Public
Lanciata: 2012

Founder

Drew HoustonFounder/CEO
Arash FerdowsiFounder

Cosa fa Dropbox

Dropbox is building the world’s first smart workspace. Back in 2007, making work better for people meant designing a simpler way to keep files in sync. Today, it means designing products that reduce busywork so you can focus on the work that matters. Most “productivity tools” get in your way. They constantly ping, distract, and disrupt your team’s flow, so you spend your days switching between apps and tracking down feedback. It’s busywork, not the meaningful stuff. We want to change this. We believe there’s a more enlightened way to work. Dropbox helps people be organized, stay focused, and get in sync with their teams.

Application YC di Dropbox, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Dropbox, batch Summer 2007. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Dropbox

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Backup and share files in the cloud.

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

A service that keeps your files in sync across all your computers and the web automatically. Drop a file in one folder and it appears everywhere, backed up and shareable. It just works, with no manual uploading, USB drives, or emailing files to yourself.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

Cambridge, USA / San Francisco, USA.

Explain your decision regarding location.

The Bay Area has the infrastructure engineering talent and investors who understand consumer software at scale, which is what building reliable cross-platform sync requires.

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Dropbox?

No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Dropbox (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Dropbox si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.