2025
In early 2025, Dropbox's adoption of AI coding tools was below about 40%, according to Dasdan.
“So 2025 early we were around, I think, less than 40% adoption”
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Dropbox
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Leone recalls Airbnb's seed round at about $600,000 and Dropbox's at $1.2 million.
“Airbnb Seed was $600,000, I think. The Dropbox was $1.2 million.”
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Courtland Allen says Dropbox went through Y Combinator while he was at MIT, and that Dropbox was also an MIT startup.
“Dropbox like went through and Dropbox was also an MIT startup. So everybody on campus had like a bunch of free Dropbox codes”
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A host asks whether Yakovenko was at Dropbox when he had the proof-of-history idea, and he answers yes.
“You were at Dropbox at the time, right?”
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Dasdan said Dropbox has over 700 million users and tens of exabytes of data.
“We have over 700 million users, you know, tens of exabytes of data, even our code is millions and millions of lines of code”
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Dropbox built its own search engine before the AI era because available tools could not handle its scale.
“For example, we had to build our own search engine. This was before AI even because we had to.”
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Dropbox does not build foundation models and instead adopts the best available models.
“we don't do foundation models, we try to adopt, you know, the best models that are out there.”
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Dropbox reached almost 100% of its developers using AI coding tools, according to Dasdan.
“And we were able to reach almost 100% of the people, not only using actually these AI coding tools”
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Dasdan said Dropbox is fundamental to many businesses, especially those handling lots of media files such as construction and advertising companies.
“Dropbox being a file sharing site, you know, and storage site, it's very fundamental to so many different businesses”
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Dasdan said customers with large video libraries want to find specific frames within videos, which generative AI now makes easier.
“It's not only sometimes finding the video, but finding a certain frame within a video.”
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Dropbox still has humans perform code reviews, including for AI-generated code, with AI providing context.
“code reviews are still done by a human, even though, you know, we try to provide as much context as possible using AI.”
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Dasdan said AI can be used to check code that other AI generated.
“you can use AI actually to check other AI code, AI generated code.”
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Sam Ransbotham said Ali Dasdan's career went from chip design to web search to Dropbox, which is about twenty years old.
“He started in chip design, moved to web search, and now is technology at a twenty year old company.”
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