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Season 2, Episode 5: The Dropbox IPO

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Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a math term for a function that generates other functions. Adam Smith was in the same fraternity as Drew Halston at MIT. He had separately, I forgot to mention this, he had started after Vio Web, a company called, called AnyBots. And so what does all this have to do with Dropbox? We're getting to that in a minute.

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