via Forbes.com

As a happy customer (50GB plan) of Dropbox since years now, I was very interested by this article in Forbes. Some insights (even if I encourage you to read the full article):

• Dropbox has today 50 million users, one new user per second joining
• 96% of the users pay nothing
• 325 million files saved per day
• Steve Jobs/Apple wanted to acquire Dropbox in 2009 for a nine-digit price
• 2008: 9 employees. 200k customers
• 2010: 14 employees, 2 million customers
• Revenue 2011: $240 million, already profitable, 70 employees
• Revenue 2012: even if they would not sign one single new customer, their sales will double
• Dropbox started with $15k from Y Combinator
• 1st VC round from Sequoia of $1.2 million
• VC round in 2008, $7.2 million raised
• VC round in August 2011, $250 million raised with a valuation of around $4 billion, VCs participating: Index Ventures (lead), Sequoia, Greylock, Benchmark, Accel, Goldman Sachs and RIT Capital Partners
• Competitors perceived: Apple iCloud, Google Drive

Impressive story, wow…