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YC passed up on Drew the first time but now Dropbox is a huge success story. What gave him a better chance the second time around?
by TheMakeA 14y ago
YC passed up on Drew the first time but now Dropbox is a huge success story. What gave him a better chance the second time around?
- pg 14y agoThe first time he applied, it was not for Dropbox but for an SAT prep service.
- TheMakeA 14y agoWas this at a time before YC began favoring founders over ideas? Serious morbid curiosity here and not a troll attempt and I thank you for indulging me.
- loumf 14y agoWas there such a time? Reddit co-founders were accepted and told to come up with a new idea http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/christine-lagorio/alexis-ohanian-reddit-how-i-did-it.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/christine-lagorio/alexis-... The next morning, on the train back to Virginia, hung over, somewhere in the middle of Connecticut, I get a call from Paul. He says, "I'm sorry, we made a mistake. We don't like your idea, but we like you guys." We got off the train, and I was able to sweet-talk the Amtrak lady into not charging us to turn around. In our conversation, Paul said, "You guys need to build the front page of the Internet." That was all Paul, and that became Reddit.
- TheMakeA 14y agoI don't know :-)
- emmett 14y agoNo, YC has always favored founders over ideas. But one of the main way you judge someone is what ideas they have. When drew was first applying to YC I didn't know him. But I'm going to presume that, like most young people, 6 months or a year is a lot of time for personal growth.