For anyone who hasn't watched it, checkout the original demo videos made by Drew himself.<p>Video1 (Probably earlier version)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAnJjXriIcw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAnJjXriIcw</a><p>Video2 (Better than Video1, more witty and well made.)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmCUDHpNzE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmCUDHpNzE</a><p>It's pretty impressive and the product then looked pretty polished (though minimalistic as it is even today) that even after 11 years, it hasn't gone through much changes. One thing that is interesting is that many people use Dropbox as a poster child of MVPs and Lean methodology, but given the possible effort and polish that Drew had put into the product, I am not sure we can call the beta version as an MVP.
He came to speak at MIT while I was there, and I remember two things that stuck out. He's a really unassuming guy and smiled at everyone he met in the hallways(have to kind of enjoy when the market rewards humble people), and he also fielded the question "where do I find a technical cofounder" to which he had a great one word answer "codecademy".
This is great. I remember the initial hacker news post. I remember how I thought it was trivial and that in the best case Microsoft and google would eat them. Glad to see that I was wrong. From that perspective I’m trying to figure out why I thought that despite all evidence to the contrary. And how I can avoid that type of mistake going forward.
No offense to Drew Houston.<p>> At M.I.T., he joined the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, which he has said helped him learn how to build a corporate culture.<p>> Dropbox also developed a reputation as an unwelcoming workplace for women. “Some of the things they’ve been struggling with are how to balance Dropbox being a fun place to work with accusations of having a frat boy atmosphere,” Mr. Mann said.<p>Not much of a plot twist there!