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Season 2, Episode 5: The Dropbox IPO

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The Story of Dropbox

Dropbox was founded by Drew Houston, an engineer at MIT. He had applied before Dropbox with Accolade, which actually is a pretty good name for a company. So he applies and I'm calling to ask you like, this guy seems like, you know, his kid seems pretty talented, but like it's an SAT prep company. We're not gonna we're not gonna fund this. But but Drew is is undaunted. And so one day while he's at MIT working on accolade on the side,rew decides he's going to go take a weekend trip down to New York and he gets on the Chinatown bus. The Chinatown bus, I don't think it exists anymore

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