


Instead of advertising, the company offers existing users 250 megabytes of free storage if they refer a friend Number of Dropbox users who come via referral. The new digs will have views of San Francisco Bay Size of the office, in square feet, the company is soon moving to. Number of rooms in the Dropbox office "on gritty Market Street" in San Francisco Number of staffers the company plans to have soon - "still an absurdly low number given the company's size," says Barret For $10 a month they can upgrade to 50 GB for $20, they get 100 GBĬurrent number of Dropbox staffers, most of them engineers Percent of Dropbox users who pay nothing. Houston says the company is already making a profit, but he won't divulge specifics Revenue Dropbox is set to bring in for 2011. Number of files that are saved to Dropbox each day Value of the company, based on that venture-capital investmentĪmount of funding Dropbox competitor Box.net secured last week "This is the hot company," says a well-known investor who didn't get a stake in the company Jobs told Houston Dropbox was "a feature, not a product."Īmount Apple's Jobs reportedly offered to pay for DropBoxĪmount of funding Dropbox secured from "seven of the Valley's elite venture firms" in August. Jobs "presciently" saw that Dropbox could be a valuable asset to Apple, but Houston said he was determined to remain independent and expand. A month earlier, Steve Jobs had summoned Houston and his partner, Arash Ferdowsi, to his Cupertino office. Number of users Dropbox had in January 2010. The San Francisco-based company is just 5 years old Number of users Dropbox has in 175 countries.
