Mike Sepso has joined the board of directors for 100 Thieves, an esports and content creation brand. Sepso cofounded Major League Gaming in 2002, bringing the first true semblance of infrastructure to competitive gaming. MLG became the biggest independent esports league in the world, and played a big part in the evolution of esports as […]
View More MLG cofounder Mike Sepso joins 100 Thieves board of directorsCategory: Drew Houston
How students are founding, funding and joining startups
Shawn Xu Contributor Share on Twitter Shawn Xu is a managing partner at The Dorm Room Fund. There has never been a better time to start, join, or fund a startup as a student. Young founders who want to start companies while still in school have an increasing number of resources to tap into that […]
View More How students are founding, funding and joining startupsOn-demand trucking app Convoy raises $185M at $1B valuation
CapitalG, the growth equity arm of Alphabet, has led the $185 million round in Convoy, its first investment in the Seattle-based tech-enabled trucking network. The round brings Convoy’s total raised to $265 million and values the company at $1 billion. New investors T. Rowe Price and Lone Pine Capital participated in the financing alongside existing […]
View More On-demand trucking app Convoy raises $185M at $1B valuationDrew Houston to upload his thoughts at TC Disrupt SF in September
Dropbox is a critically important tool for more than 500 million people. The company launched back in 2007 and founder and CEO Drew Houston has spent the last decade growing Dropbox to the behemoth it is today. During that time, Houston has made some tough decisions. A few years ago, Houston decided to move the […]
View More Drew Houston to upload his thoughts at TC Disrupt SF in SeptemberDrew Houston on wooing Dropbox’s IPO investors: ‘We don’t fit neatly into any one mold’
Dropbox went public this morning to great fanfare, with the stock shooting up more than 40% in the initial moments of trading as the enterprise-slash-consumer company looked to convince investors that it could be a viable publicly-traded company. And for one that Steve Jobs famously called a feature, and not a company, it certainly was […]
View More Drew Houston on wooing Dropbox’s IPO investors: ‘We don’t fit neatly into any one mold’Dropbox and Box were never competitors
As Dropbox had its IPO moment this morning, more than 10 years after launching, we can finally put one myth to rest. Dropbox and Box were never targeting the same customers. As Anshu Sharma, founder at Prekari, a stealth startup and former partner at Storm Venture tweeted earlier today: If you are a VC and […]
View More Dropbox and Box were never competitorsY Combinator’s Jessica Livingston on Dropbox IPO: “It was just a dream of ours”
Dropbox, after more than a decade, finally went public this morning — and the stock soared more than 40% in its initial trading, making it a marquee success for one of the original Web 2.0 companies (at least for now). While we still have to wait for the dust to settle, it’s been a very […]
View More Y Combinator’s Jessica Livingston on Dropbox IPO: “It was just a dream of ours”Dropbox soars more than 40% in its debut as a publicly-traded company
It’s a big day for Dropbox — the first marquee Web 2.0 name to go public this year and one of the biggest since Snap last year — which made its public debut today, with the stock soaring nearly 43% to around $30 in its first moments of trading. Today’s debut for the enterprise-slash-consumer company […]
View More Dropbox soars more than 40% in its debut as a publicly-traded companyDropbox, a company that turned down an offer from Steve Jobs in 2009, is finally going public
The place where you may or may not store and share your photos, PDFs, and other documents is going public.
Dropbox, a cloud storage company based in Silicon Valley’s heart San Francisco, is listing on the Nasdaq under the stock ticker $DBX, acc…
Former Nike CFO Don Blair joins Dropbox’s board of directors
As Dropbox continues its inevitable march toward an IPO, it’s going to look to bring in people with a lot of experience handling the operations of larger public companies — and it’s getting one today. Dropbox today said it is adding former Nike CFO Don Blair to the company’s board of directors. Blair will be joining the audit committee, the company said, and comes in with… Read More