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Dropbox
Sign in to saveDropbox 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
- 200px|class=skin-invert
- 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 sectionsContents
- 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.