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#138 CEO Motive, Shoaib Makani w/ Ilya Fushman: Powering the Physical Economy

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How I Connected With Max Leifgen on the Startup of Dropbox

I was a Dropbox at the time. We had just launched Dropbox for business. There was a sort of parallel to how keep trucking was going about their business in acquiring individual smaller truck companies like what are called owner operators. So it was very similar from a go-to-market motion perspective and some product functionality. And so I actually had confidence that I could build and solve a problem. What I was unsure about was could I scale a company? Would I be able to continuously evolve myself? But thankfully you approach these in stages, right? You don't have to go and build a big company overnight. Nothing great was built big. nothing was a narrow entry point.

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