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Season 2, Episode 5: The Dropbox IPO

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The History of Dropbox and Y Combinator

Y Combinator, the seed fund slash incubator that was started in 2005. The history of Dropbox and the history of Y Combinator or YC as it's known these days is pretty intertwined. Paul Graham had been the founder of a company back in the dot com days called via web. And so they started it in Boston and ended up getting acquired by Yahoo in 1998 for about $50 million.

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