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Dropbox startup lessons learned 2011
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Startup Lessons Learned
2011 Drew Houston Founder/CEO, Dropbox @drewhouston
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How things get
built at Dropbox Challenges we face at scale How we decide what to build
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Challenges we face
at scale
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How we decide
what to build
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Votebox: our tracker
for user requests
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BUT…figuring out what
your customers want is your job, not theirs
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Big problems hidden
in plain sight
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Thank you! Questions?
@drewhouston Slides: bit.ly/dropboxSLL2011
Editor's Notes
(as I spent the bulk of my 20s discovering) This is not your typical rails app that you can bang out in a weekend.
Unusual aspects
A few examples/stories
A few examples/stories
A few examples/stories