Here is my personal experience... It is actually took place, later on when there was an announcement regarding Dropbox raising from Sequoia . This was the fir

Here is my personal experience... It is actually took place, later on when there was an announcement regarding Dropbox raising from Sequoia . This was the first time I heard of Dropbox. Those days building a product which did similar to what dropbox were doing, except that mine used any distributed version control it could find on a computer (I had it supporting git, mercurial and bazzar) and push to servers with SSH. It was all automatic, built with python, and monitored FS for changes. Supported any number of directories, etc. So I felt I have this great prototype which I considered starting working on this full-time, till that morning when I read the TC article and I realized it simply been done, and by people who now have $6M in their pocket to make it even more awesome. Given the effort and dreams I built upon my own version, I remembered how I could not use dropbox for quite some time.