Aaron Levie

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My First Million · I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

But once we collectively had conviction, then it was very straightforward.

Well, it was definitely the right move for us and where we were.

You know, the way we kind of did the math was Google had to own the consumer.

You know, we saw the G drive kind of writing on the wall.

They would want to bundle it with Gmail and most consumers would sort of be satisfied with that.

And then iCloud added on top of that and then OneDrive.

And so like the consumer really looked like a total kind of death pit.

And Dropbox, I would say performed far better than I would have estimated if from just a pure like economic standpoint, I would have thought that the commoditization would have been much more impactful.

So huge kudos to them on their execution and just, you know, obviously building a world-class product on that front.

What we were very clear on was the only way that we would not go out of business was by being enterprise because we were too convinced that over enough time,

that the consumer space would just be too competitive and too commoditized.

So not only are we fantastically happy with the decision, but I think it was the only outcome that would have produced really any form of success.

And then I think over the long term, like let's just say we add another 10 years to the timeline, I think the only way to build a very large business as an independent company in this category is by being enterprise focused.

Just because where are most dollars going to go for managing data, securing data, kind of caring about how it's governed in a workflow, it's going to come from businesses.

And there's actually, I think, relevant lessons as we look at the AI space is I think most dollars in AI will eventually be enterprise dollars.

There'll be some, you know, there'll be fantastic outcomes in consumer, no question, because there's, you know, some ways to build consumer businesses out of this.

But by, you know, by and large, where's intelligence valued?

It's going to be in the enterprise.

So just as where is software valued?

It's in the enterprise.

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