Interestingly enough, Dropbox was launched here on Hacker News with a video to "throw away your usb drive". Since I had been writing "ad copy" for many years f

Interestingly enough, Dropbox was launched here on Hacker News with a video to "throw away your usb drive". Since I had been writing "ad copy" for many years for my own shareware app at the time, and liked to encourage posters rather than criticize (as I knew how hard it could be to launch something), I instead posted a list of benefits in a way a person 30-70 years old could understand. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 I've been honored to watch as subsequent Dropbox videos had become better at explaining the benefits to real people, with wording similar to mine, as well as surprised to see screen shots of that page with my username on it in presentations done by Drew Houston and Adam Smith at YC Startup School or MIT Startup Bootcamp. I had the pleasure of meeting Drew after YC Startup School 2007, when he was still looking for a partner, at the apartment where the Xobni founders lived. I got a good overview of what he was building but didn't have time to show him what I was working on. A few people left to pick up burgers while I was talking with Drew. My next encounter with Drew was also the day after Startup School, this time in 2011. It was surreal to sit around a table with Drew and visitors to Dropbox Headquarters in large office in downtown San Francisco, joining the people peppering him with questions about taking Dropbox. Again, people ate, but (mini) burgers were catered, and hundreds of them. :) Edit: Also, when I interned at Justin.tv (I went back to college to complete a B.S. Computer Science and a B.S. Mathematics), I created a console app (in Python) for broadcasters that could start with their JTV credentials and channel name and modify the packets of the video stream playing on VLC in real-time in multiple ways. Arash Ferdowsi was helpful in putting me in touch with the person at Dropbox responsible for client-side builds for some tips on building executables of my app for Windows, Mac, and Linux users.