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Dropbox’s YC Application (Summer 2007)
- mywittyname 10y ago> # How long have the founders known one another and how did you meet? > There's a joke in here somewhere. This line always cracks me up.
- wonderous 10y agoPrior comments on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dropbox%20yc%20application&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dropbox%20yc%20application&sor... Which includes PG's notes on the app: >> "File syncing. Superset of backups, which people will pay for. Good. Single founder. Bad. But at least he's looking for more people. Went to MIT, 1600 SAT. Probably fairly smart. Wrote a poker bot. Now I'm starting to get interested; has the right attitude. Description of the software sounds plausible but generic. Maybe it's good, but who can tell. But little sister uses it; that's impressive. Scroll down to what he understands that competitors don't get. Wow: very concise and unequivocal. I'm now basically sold. Scroll through the rest. No red flags. Did not make the usual joke single founders make when asked how long the founders have known one another. Good answer to what might go wrong. A-. (Would be an A with a cofounder.)"
- migueloller 10y agoWhy is there a "Google Docs & Spreadsheets -- Web word processing and spreadsheets." link all the way in the footer of the page?
- wonderous 10y agoMy guess is that YC posted this and didn't notice the link in the footer.
- economicanxiety 10y agoThe way Dropbox is talked about here, in hushed tones, you'd think it was some life-altering panacea.