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Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Dropbox was founded in 2007 by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi as a startup company, with initial funding from seed accelerator Y Combinator.

Key facts

Company.name
Dropbox, Inc.
Company.former_name
Evenflow, Inc. (2007–2009)
Company.type
Public
Company.revenue
(2024)
Company.operating_income
(2024)
Company.net_income
(2024)
Company.assets
(2024)
Company.equity
(2024)
Company.num_employees
2,204 (2024)
Network service provider.child
yes
Network service provider.asn
19679
Software.name
Dropbox
Software.logo
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Software.developer
Dropbox, Inc.
Software.ver layout
stacked
Software.operating system
Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone
Software.language
Chinese (traditional and simplified), English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Malaysian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal's and Brazilian), Russian, Spanish (Castilian and Latin American), Ukrainian
Software.language count
22

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Encyclopedic overview

21 sections
Contents
  • Concept
  • History
  • User growth
  • Acquisitions
  • Remote workforce
  • Workforce reductions
  • Platforms
  • Financials
  • Business model
  • Company partnerships
  • Technology
  • Mailbox
  • Carousel
  • Dropbox Paper
  • User-created projects
  • Reception
  • Privacy and security concerns
  • Offices
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Dropbox was founded in 2007 by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi as a startup company, with initial funding from seed accelerator Y Combinator.

Dropbox has experienced criticism and generated controversy for issues including security breaches and privacy concerns.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dropbox” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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