$DBX Dropbox Tape Reports
Per Ticker.id: $DBX Dropbox Tape Reports — 2 podcast mentions across 1 podcast (30 days), latest 2026-08-05 22:44 UTC.
It's so great. It's so great to have the Knicks win. Um, and, uh, Adit Argawal is here. Co-founder, general partner at South Park Commons. Uh, Gamma, sponsor of This Week in Startups. Luma Labs, Render, formerly CTO of Dropbox, early engineer at The Facebook Corporation. How are you doing?
Jason Calacanis — This Week in Startups · Airtable's 80% off value crash: VCs explain why it's still a win | E2321 · 2026-08-05Uh, let's talk a little bit about this, uh, OpenAI, uh, versus Apple. I don't know if anybody here is an investor in OpenAI. Um, I'm an investor in Apple. Yes, I'm— I have a lot of Apple shares I've accumulated over the years, and I'm a huge, huge fan of the company, especially in this new local models on your desktop, which I've been playing with, which I think is going to be crazy next year. When they launched the new Mac Studio and, you know, you got a terabyte on your desktop. And just talk about the, the best practice, Aditya, of talent moving from one company to another, your thoughts on this kerfuffle, and then what it means for people who come pitch us after they've left Apple or Uber or Meta or Dropbox, whatever it is, and what they should know when they're working on their side hustle. And on their corporate laptop, maybe?
Jason Calacanis — This Week in Startups · Airtable's 80% off value crash: VCs explain why it's still a win | E2321 · 2026-08-05And he said great companies are bought, not sold. If you're in the selling process and trying to convince people, it's going to go for a low price. If you have multiple offers, it's going to go for a high price. And you'll just know because people will want to hang out with you. All of a sudden, the founder of another company will call you like Steve Jobs called famously the founder Drew of Dropbox and said, hey, I would love to hear what you're up to. He's not calling because he needs more friends. Steve Jobs had enough friends, and if he wanted more friends, he could just pick a celebrity or some artist or the most interesting person in the world and be friends with them. If Steve Jobs wants to be with you, it's for that reason. So you know when it's happening. Great job. Okay, let's take another question. Now we're talking. Now the dam has broken. Now we're talking. Okay.
Jason Calacanis — This Week in Startups · Why this longevity startup raised in Japan, not Silicon Valley | TWiST Tokyo | E2315 · 2026-07-22Yes. Dropbox not going to like this. You know, OpenAI is not going to like this. This would be, uh, probably bad for the valuations. I don't think it would kill them completely, but it means that it would commoditize more, right? So it means that there'd be like a bunch of AI companies that would catch up to the frontier. They would train AIs that are like roughly similar, roughly equivalent. They could still make money by doing that and then selling their AIs, but they wouldn't have a monopoly. They wouldn't have anything close to monopoly. Which I think is good for humanity, although it's bad for the bottom line of those particular companies. Notably, it's good for the bottom line of lots of other companies. Like, if you're a company that's behind and you don't, you're not Anthropic, you're not OpenAI, then you would love this because this helps you catch up, you know, or this, this helps you to like, um, capture more of the value from the chips you're selling, for example, or from the like downstream product that you're making.
Daniel Kokotajlo — The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · OpenAI Whistleblower FINALLY Speaks: “AI Has A 70% Chance Of Going Horribly Wrong!“ · 2026-07-13Well, also it's interesting because at the time, if you're concerned about say Nike stealing your designs, you're thinking about kind of a one-off, like you're stealing that set of designs. In the AI era, if you steal everyone's information, you can create a model that can replicate them at scale, right? With frequency. So it's actually, I think, a higher risk now. But it's interesting that it was still so important at the time. But going back to the top of that clip, Lon, the whole concept of bottom-up sales was kind of a Dropbox invention. If you go back in startup history, the idea that people would just buy something, start using it, then their company would say, oh my gosh, we have 28 users of Dropbox, we need to manage this, sign up for an enterprise contract, revenue flows, everyone's happy. And that was an engine that powered SaaS for a long time. It lowered customer acquisition costs, provided a lot of strong net dollar retention, right? All those acronyms, CAC, NDR, that investors used to love. But today, fast forward, you know, 6 years and we're still talking about people bringing AI tools into their company, driving usage, wanting to run, you know, enterprise control.
Alex Wilhelm — This Week in Startups · $100T is managed by “human duct tape” | E2308 · 2026-07-06Dropbox.
Barry Ritholtz — Masters in Business · Venture Capital During the AI Revolution with Mamoon Hamid · 2026-07-03Dropbox was in that same era, but there was like X-File and ElephantDrive. I mean, I remember these, I, as an associate, you're, you know, when you're suggesting an investment, you're going to do a lot of diligence. I remember like the laundry list of companies I looked at, there were probably like 40 companies that were doing something similar, but most of them were dedicated towards sort of consumer use cases— photos, music, stuff like that.
Mamoon Hamid — Masters in Business · Venture Capital During the AI Revolution with Mamoon Hamid · 2026-07-03Oh yeah. There's two sides to the coin of the digital world. First of all, it's a great time to be alive if you know what you're doing and you've got a little discipline. If you don't, it's a black hole and you're likely to throw stuff in that you uncover a month later and go, oh my God, I should have handled that or whatever, whatever. And it's, do you put it in Dropbox? You stick it in Evernote? You want to put it in Outlook? You want to put it in WhatsApp? What the what? Where are you going to stick this stuff? So the plethora of options. Has made it almost more work. You know, come on. I don't know if you've seen all the studies that say that basically productivity hasn't gone up at all, though technology has gone through the roof. And a lot of that is because the technology hasn't necessarily improved productivity. It's actually complicated people's lives a lot. I know a bunch of high-tech people that are going back to paper planners, especially the ADD and ADHD type, because there are too many clicks. And out of sight, out of mind. You know, I've got a Thunderbolt screen, but I still don't have the real estate on there that I used to have with my time design paper planner. You can't beat it because you can see all of that sort of a relationship to each other much easier. It's— there are no clicks, there's no battery, no Wi-Fi required. It has all the downside. I mean, I'm a kind of a high-tech end user anyway. I like all that stuff because of connectivity and so forth. But if you really need to know what you're doing, otherwise the tech world can really be quite overwhelming.
David Allen — The Tim Ferriss Show · #873: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) (Repost) · 2026-07-02