![]() And unless it tells us, it's nearly impossible to know.ĭropbox, like most web companies, gives away a limited free version of its service when you just sign up. The question is, how many people are paying for its service? A privately held company, Dropbox won't say how many people pay. So far, Dropbox has convinced more than 500 million people and 200,000 businesses to sign up. And they've worked to become even more attractive to businesses by making it easier for teams of people to share files. They've made it so apps can connect with Dropbox to store and sync files across devices. ![]() They've added more than a dozen features, including specialized photo storage and document editing. Since then, Houston and his team have been trying to prove Jobs wrong. ![]() Jobs declared Dropbox to be a " feature, not a product." Or, put another way, Jobs believed Dropbox didn't have a future as a standalone company. ![]() Jobs wanted to buy the company, likely to integrate it with Apple's own forthcoming file-syncing service. "I can't think of much higher praise than that."īut Apple's co-founder wasn't convinced Dropbox was destined for success. "It was an interesting conversation because he said he liked our products," Houston (pronounced "how-stun") later recounted to Forbes. At 27, he was talking to the most influential name in tech - and his own personal hero. Houston's startup made waves when he unveiled his storage service in 2008, offering a dead-simple way to upload and save your files in the cloud and then synchronize them between your computers. That's what Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston had to answer after meeting Apple's co-founder seven years ago. What do you do when Steve Jobs says you're destined to fail?
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