HEADQUARTERS
San Francisco
WEBSITE
www.dropbox.com
TWITTER
@dropbox
FOR TRANSFORMING FILE STORAGE INTO A VERY BIG BUSINESS
Thanks to its elegant interface, deft courting of new users, and a knack for putting its cute box icon everywhere, Dropbox keeps growing, even as it competes with Apple and Google. Its growth-revenue reportedly exceeded $100 million in 2011, driving the company to profitability-can be credited with making file storage kind of cool. From the start, says CEO Drew Houston, “we focused on creating a service that just works.” So far, so good.
By David Lidsky
Photograph by Flickr user Nick Perez
From: http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2012/dropbox
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