This is actually not that easy to do if it were, they would have done it already.” The reactions were like, “Cool thing, but you know, Microsoft’s gonna do this and Google is gonna do this.” Funnily enough, I wasn’t even like, “Yes, we will beat them.” I’m just like, “Yeah, but they haven’t, for whatever reason. At the West Coast one, come running up to you with checks. They had two demo days - the East Coast one and the West Coast one. But then I remember talking to a couple of the investors in the room and like they were like, “Oh, clearly this is a feature Microsoft could build.” What do you remember about that demo day - and what happened afterward?Ī. You were very funny – your presentation was like a stand-up comedy act. I remember being at the Y Combinator demo day in 2007, at the old candy factory outside of Harvard Square. I was really active in my college fraternity, so I think I learned a lot I developed the left side of my brain in classes, but how do you relate to people and lead people? A lot of my first management training was actually in organizations like my fraternity, where you have to like get all these unpaid volunteers to cooperate. they had a bunch of how to write a business plan.

And that was a great first community to be part of, and learn about startups. Were you part of any clubs or extracurricular things?at MIT?Ī. The Dropbox application is displayed in the App Store.

Dropbox founder