Dropbox

Unit No.: 305, Level 3, Second Floor,

Prestige Atrium, No.1 Central Street,
Bengaluru – 560001 Karnataka
+1 855-237-6726

www.dropbox.com

Dropbox, Inc.

Type Public

Traded as NASDAQ: DBX

Industry Cloud storage, File hosting

Founded June 2007; 12 years ago

Founders Drew Houston

Arash Ferdowsi

Headquarters San Francisco, California

United States

Products Cloud storage, File synchronization, Personal

cloud, Client software

Employee: 1001 to 5000 employees

Company:

Houston founded Evenflow, Inc. in May 2007[14] as the company behind Dropbox,
and shortly thereafter secured seed funding from Y Combinator.[15] Dropbox
officially launched at 2008's TechCrunch Disrupt, an annual technology
conference.[16] Owing to trademark disputes between Proxy, Inc. and Evenflow,
Dropbox's official domain name was "getdropbox.com" until October 2009, when
it acquired its current domain, "dropbox.com".[16] In October 2009, Evenflow, Inc.
was renamed to Dropbox, Inc.

Technologies

1. Python for virtually everything; not more than a couple thousand lines of
C
2. MySQL
3. Paster/Pylons/Cheetah (web framework — minimal use beyond
templating and handling form input)
4. S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks
5. memcached in front of the database and for handling inter-server
coordination
6. ganglia for graphing, with drraw for custom graphs like the stack graph
mentioned above
7. nginx for the frontend server
8. haproxy for load balancing to app servers, after nginx (better
configurability than nginx’s balancing modules)
9. nagios for internal health checks
10.Pingdom for external service monitoring and paging
11.GeoIP for mapping IPs to locations
Some other products that make up Dropbox’s tech stack include:

 Marketing: Postmark, AddThis, Sniply, Marketo

 Sales and Support: GetFeedback, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, RainKing,
Sendbloom
 Developer and IT: NGINX, Python, Sentry, HackerOne
  Analytics: App Annie, Google Analytics, Inspectlet, Presto
 HR: AngelList Jobs, CodeFights Bots, HackerRank, Culture Amp
 Finance: Abacus
 Productivity: Asana, Boomerang for Gmail, Slack, EventBoard

Some other fun facts about Dropbox:

 Dropbox is used by 22% of both Y Combinator and 500 Startups

companies
 Dropbox ranks #1 for number of customers in File Sharing and Backup
category on Siftery

Drew Houston Arash Ferdowsi Quentin Clark

Co-founder and CEO Co-founder CTO

Melanie Collins Yamini Rangan Paul Jacobs

VP of People Chief Customer Officer Board Member and
Former CEO Qualcomm