Dropbox Is The Start Out Y Combinator Investee To Larn Public

There convey been M&A exits, alongside Twitch likely the close notable, as well as roughly of companies YC set early on coin into convey basically chosen to bide their time, Airbnb, Stripe as well as Coinbase could larn world whatever fourth dimension they select to exactly Dropbox is the outset IPO.

From the YCombinator blog:

Congrats Dropbox!
By Jessica Livingston , March 23, 2018

I wrote Dropbox their outset investment depository fiscal establishment represent on June 26, 2007. What strikes me equally I await at a re-create of the depository fiscal establishment represent is that Drew as well as Arash must convey been fairly effective at getting all their incorporation paperwork completed. I oftentimes had to chase startups good into July.

Little did I know dorsum as well as thus what a momentous depository fiscal establishment represent this ane would be: that eleven years later, Dropbox would last the outset Y Combinator society to larn public.

I wishing I could say that Paul, Robert, Trevor as well as I knew this would last ane of the large ones when nosotros interviewed Drew as well as Arash on Apr 21, 2007. They were the outset interview of the day, at 8:30am. Though it was a long fourth dimension ago, I recall nosotros all agreed that they seemed good, as well as it was an tardily determination to fund them. Trevor had already looked at the software as well as was impressed past times it.

We’d met Drew the yr before. He’d been Adam Smith’s large blood brother inwards MIT’s Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Adam was a founder of Xobni, which was inwards the Summer ’06 batch, as well as he’d brought Drew alongside him equally a invitee to a YC dinner. We too met Drew at YC’s Startup School inwards California inwards March 2007. He came to the afterparty at our identify as well as showed us an early on paradigm of Dropbox. I recall him beingness likeable, earnest, as well as real energetic.

When Drew applied to YC, he applied equally a unmarried founder. After nosotros invited him to interviews, Paul sent him an e-mail suggesting he’d last improve off alongside a cofounder. By interviews, a few weeks later, he’d constitute Arash. That worked out well....MUCH MORE