Microsoft launches Windows Live SkyDrive (later OneDrive), which also provides users with free storage.[3]
2007
December
Competition
SpiderOak – an online backup and file hosting service that allows users to access, synchronize and share data using a cloud-based server – is launched.
2008
March
Product
Dropbox creates a 3-minute video demonstration of its technology as it is meant to work, which is posted to Digg.[4] This helped its beta waiting list expand from 5,000 people to 75,000 people literally overnight.[5]
2008
September 11
Product
Dropbox launches to the public, allowing anyone to get 2 GB of free storage. It also announces storage pricing tiers, with 50 GB Dropbox for $9.99/month, or $99.99/year.[6]
2009
October
Product
Dropbox acquires the dropbox.com domain for $300,000 in cash.[7]
2009
December
Acquisitions
Steve Jobs approaches Drew Houston and suggests that Drew Houston sell Dropbox. Drew Houston cuts the pitch short and says that Dropbox is determined to stay independent.[8]
TechCrunch reports that all Dropbox accounts could be accessed without password for four hours. This was later widely reported in the mainstream press and caused some doubt about Dropbox's "cloud" technology model.[14] The error was caused by an authentication code update.[15]
Dropbox announces a new feature allowing users to automatically upload photographs or videos from camera, tablet, SD card, or smartphone. Users will be given up to 3 GB (initially 5 GB) extra space to accommodate the photographs and videos uploaded in this fashion, but the space is permanently added to the user's allowance and is not restricted to pictures. It is viewed as a move against Google's recently launched Google Drive and Microsoft's OneDrive.[17]
2012
November 12
Userbase
Dropbox announces it reaches 100 million users.[18]
2012
December
International
Dropbox announces plans to establish its first international office in Dublin, Ireland.[19]
2012
December 19
Acquisitions
Dropbox acquires Snapjoy, which provides a service for aggregating, archiving and viewing all digital photographs taken with cameras, phones, or popular photo applications.[citation needed]
2013
March
Acquisitions
Dropbox acquires Mailbox, a sleek email platform specifically for mobile users.[20]
Dropbox announces it reaches 200 million users.[citation needed]
2013
November 13
Product
Dropbox announces it will unveil Dropbox for businesses.[23]
2014
February
Team
Dropbox hires Dennis Woodside, who ran Motorola Mobility for Google, as its chief operating officer.[24][25]
2014
April 17
Acquisitions
Dropbox acquires Hackpad, a real-time collaborative text editor.[26][27]
2014
November 4
Competition
Dropbox announces a partnership with Microsoft to integrate Dropbox and Microsoft Office applications on iOS, Android and the Office 365 applications on the web.[28][29][30]
2014
December
Product
Dropbox announces that it will open up its API to business software developers – offering a new set of tools to help integrate Dropbox’s file storage and security features with other business software.[31]
2015
February
Partnerships
Dropbox partners with Vodafone, a British multinational telecommunications company, to offer file storage to Vodafone's 400 million wireless customers.[32]
2015
August 12
Product
Dropbox announces availability of its USB security key which provides two-factor authentication to its services.[33]
2015
October 15
Product
Dropbox rebrands its six-month-old product invite-only beta product Notes as Dropbox Paper, and expands the beta significantly. The product, that facilitates collaborative document editing, is available only on the web at this time.[34][35]
2015
December
Product
Dropbox announces it will shutter its free mobile apps Mailbox and Carousel as it focuses more on paid file storage by businesses.[36]
2016
March
Product, Competition
Dropbox announces that it now stores over 90% of its user data on its own infrastructure stack as it moves away from Amazon S3.[37][38][39]
2016
June 14
Financial
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston announces that the company is free cash flow positive, but is not in a rush to IPO. Commentators note that this does not imply that the company is profitable, since free cash flow does not include a number of expenses.[40]
2016
August 3
Product
Dropbox launches an iPhone and Android version of its document-editing app, Paper, and upgrades it from invite-only beta to open beta.[41]
2016
November 16
Product
As part of its AdminX initiative for Dropbox Business users, Dropbox launches additional features to improve security of business documents and prevent people from accessing them through personal accounts. Admin controls are extended to Dropbox Paper. Also, Dropbox announces an infrastructure expansion in Europe and Asia, to cater to its large non-US audience. As of this date, Dropbox has more than 30 security partnerships across areas such as data loss prevention, enterprise mobility management, identity and access management, data migration, eDiscovery, and analytics.[42][43]
2017
June 19
Product
Dropbox announces plans to further grow its worldwide private network in North America, Europe, and Australia by introducing five new regional accelerators. This move aims to enhance performance and reliability for all its users around the world.[44]
2018
February 15
Financial
Dropbox launches the Dropbox Foundation, which focuses on promoting and protecting human rights by partnering with impactful nonprofits.[45]
2018
March
Financial
Dropbox has successfully secured $756 million for its IPO, with 36 million shares priced at $21 each.[46]
2018
November 6
Product
Dropbox announces Dropbox Extensions, which allow users to initiate workflows directly within Dropbox, e.g. the ability to edit PDFs, to view and edit DWGs, to annotate videos or to send electronic fax.[47]
2019
January 28
Acquisitions
Dropbox announces its acquisition of e-signature software company HelloSign for $230 million.[48]
2019
May
Product
Dropbox announces Rewind, a new feature that can roll back an account to any point in the past 30 days.[49]
2020
October 13
Team
Dropbox is from now on becoming a remote-first company.[50]
2021
March 9
Acquisitions
Dropbox announces its acquisition of document sharing startup DocSend for $165 million.[51]
2021
October 29
Acquisitions
Dropbox announces that an agreement to acquire universal search company Command E has been signed.[52]
2022
November 29
Acquisitions
Dropbox announces that an agreement to acquire several key assets from Boxcryptor has been signed. Boxcryptor is a provider of end-to-endzero-knowledge encryption for cloud storage services.[53]
2022
December 16
Acquisitions
Dropbox announces the acquisition of form management platform FormSwift for $95 million.[54]
2023
June 21
Financial
Dropbox launches Dropbox Ventures, a $50 million venture fund focused on startups in the AI space.[55]
2023
June 21
Product
Dropbox announces Dash, an AI-powered universal search, and Dropbox AI, which uses generative AI to answer questions and summarize large files.[56]
2023
October 10
Product
Dropbox announces Dropbox Studio, a video collaboration tool, that can be used to create, edit, review and publish videos.[57]
^"About Dropbox". Dropbox, Inc. Retrieved June 3, 2013. Dropbox was founded by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in 2007, and received seed funding from Y Combinator.
