I made this presentation for my Entrepreneurship class at TOBB ETU University. Content is aimed to describe from an entrepreneurial point of view.

1. Welcome!
Welcome!

2. Improvements and further plans
Failures and problems
Competitions
General capabilities and details of Dropbox
Ecosystem in the company
Market environment before Dropbox and the idea of it
History of creation
OVERVIEW

3. What is a Dropbox ?
• Web-based file hosting service
• Store and share files and folders
with others across the Internet
using file synchronization.

4. • Founded by MIT
graduates in 2007
Arash Ferdowsi
Drew Houston
• Launched in 2008
• Today more than 600 million
of users
• Founder and CEOs: Drew
Houston and Arash Ferdowsi

5. 2011
2013
OVER 200 MILLION
REGISTERED USERS
2015
400 MILLION
REGISTERED USERS
2017
500 MILLION
REGISTERED USERS
2020
600+ MILLION
REGISTERED USERS
25 MILLION
REGISTERED USERS
Number of registered users from 2011 to 2020

6. • Initial funding from seed accelerator Y Combinator.
• Dropbox has been ranked as one of the most valuable startups in the US
and the world, with a valuation of over US$10 billion, and it has been
described as one of Y Combinator's most successful investments to date.

7. The reasons why a need for Dropbox appeared
• The conventional ways of data sharing were unreliable;
• Transferring data was time consuming;
• Lack of efficiency, no option was available for working upon
one document by two or more workers at the same time;
• Lack of security;

8. • consumers stored and transferred files offline via USB devices
and hard drives.
• Online solutions such as file sending websites (yousendit.com),
emailing attachments to oneself.
• These products served some niche enterprise and tech-savvy
audiences but had limited appeal to individual consumers.
Prior to Dropbox

9. Goodwater’s sentiment analysis illustrates consumer appreciation for Dropbox’s product
experience: its users love that it is “easy to use”, “super useful”, and “never has issues”.

10. Growth Strategy
• No Advertisement
• Referral Program

11. Growth Strategy
Dropquest & Space Race

12. Ecosystem in the company

13. MARKETİNG DEPARTMANT

14. ENGİNEERİNG
DEPARTMENT

15. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

16. OPERATİONS DEPARTMENT

17. SALES DEPARTMENT

18. Dropbox has 2,323 employees and is ranked
9th among it's top 10 competitors according to
owler.com
91% of employees at Dropbox say it is
a great place to work compared to
59% of employees at a typical U.S.-
based company.

19. Competetitors

20. COMPETİTİON

21. 600 million registered users
14.3 million paid subscribers
Box has 70.6 million registered users and
approximately 13.4 million paying customers
The difference between Dropbox and Box is that the
former offers 2 GB of free space.

23. • Web Access
• Privacy&Security
• Online Backup
• File sharing
• Mobile Device Access
• File Sync

24. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da
Vinci.

25. • In Silicon Valley it is said failure is a badge of honour - and
practically a prerequisite for success.
• Initially investors were lukewarm - as there were many other cloud-
based storage solutions.

26. "Make something people want. That sounds so obvious,
but when you look at why companies fail it's normally
because they don't have enough customers.“
"One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk.
Actually we all want things to go as we expect. What you
need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty."

27. The worst outcome for a startup is
not failure — its mediocrity.

28. Lack of security, lack of communication
Now let's check the Top 8 Dropbox problems
below.
• Dropbox Not Syncing.
• Dropbox Website Goes Down.
• Dropbox Files Missing.
• Dropbox Errors.
• Dropbox Failed to Uninstall.
• Dropbox Not Working.
• Fail to Login to Dropbox.
• Constant Crashes.

29. The company plans to share more about its new product
roadmaps in the second half of the year.
In the meantime, Dropbox is landing deals that it expects will pay off for years.
For instance, the company is making education an area of focus.
In Q2, Dropbox brought on the University of Michigan as a new customer, in
one of its largest educational deals to date. It's a cross-campus deployment,
meaning that both for students and faculty will use Dropbox

31. Future Challanges
• Lots of company are doing the “Same Thing”
• How to attract new users?
• Develop Dropbox for Business

32. REFERENCES:
https://www.goodwatercap.com/thesis/understanding-dropbox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(service)
https://www.privateproxyguide.com/dropbox-review/
https://www.dropbox.com/about
http://getdropbox.com
https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/1321759
https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/how-dropbox-is-managing-the-
covid-19-crisis
https://www.imobie.com/cloud-tips/how-to-fix-dropbox-problems.html
https://www.owler.com/company/dropbox