Dropbox is a critically important tool for more than 500 million people, which is why were so excited to have founder and CEO Drew Houston on the Disrupt stage in September.Dropbox launched back in 2007 and Houston has spent the last decade growing Dropbox to the behemoth it is today.During that time, Houston has made some tough decisions.A few years ago, Houston decided to move the Dropbox infrastructure off of AWS.
In 2014, Houston chose to raise $500 million in debt financing to keep up pace with Box, which was considering an IPO at the time.
And in March 2017, Dropbox took another $600 million in debt financing from JP Morgan.Houston also reportedly turned down a nine-figure acquisition offer from Apple.All the while, Houston led Dropbox to be cash-flow positive and grew the company to see a $1 billion revenue run rate as of last year.And, of course, we cant forget the decision to go public earlier this year.Interestingly, Houston first told his story to a TechCrunch audience at TC50 in 2008 as part of the Startup Battlefield.
In fact, you can check out the original pitch from TC50 right here.At Disrupt SF in September, were excited to sit down with Houston to discuss his journey thus far, the decision to go public and the future of Dropbox.The show runs from September 5 to September 7, and for the next week, our super early-bird tickets are still available.