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Dropbox

Cloud file storage and collaboration service.

Public Y Combinator · Summer 2007 Founded 2007 San Francisco USA Productivity
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Founders

2
A
Arash Ferdowsi
Co-founder
 D
Drew Houston
Co-founder & CEO

Where its founders came from

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The companies and labs that produced Dropbox’s founders.

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The Dropbox diaspora

5 companies Open the full tree →

People who worked at or founded Dropbox and went on to start their own companies.

Lineage of DropboxDropboxDropboxKanjun QiuKanjun QiuSourceressSourceressImbueImbueAnatoly YakovenkoAnatoly YakovenkoSolanaSolanaChristina CacioppoChristina CacioppoVantaVantaJiten VaidyaJiten VaidyaPlanetScalePlanetScale
The Dropbox lineage graph — click any node to keep exploring. ↓ CSV↓ JSON
A 1 founded
Solana 2018
C 1 founded
Vanta 2018
J 1 founded
PlanetScale 2018
K 2 founded
Sourceress 2016 Imbue 2021

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