Aaron Levie

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468 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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And that's where most dollars of technology go.

And other than, you know, three companies that make money on advertising in consumer tech.

For me, it was actually, the thing I was obsessed with was when we moved, we dropped out, we moved to Silicon Valley.

And like, if you remember, like, you guys would have been just too young, maybe like 17, 18.

But like, it was like Sam Altman was, with Looped, was like- With the double collar?

Yes, that was the person to be in the Valley.

I mean, other than, you know, Zuck and- It looks exactly the same, by the way.

Sure.

Yeah.

Well, when we first started, we dropped out of college.

It was four of us living and working in Berkeley.

And we got a call from Yahoo.

And it was the corp dev team at Yahoo that had basically the team that had more or less just been responsible for buying Flickr.

So there was this product that was like in the late 90s, early 2000s called Yahoo Briefcase.

And it was sort of one of our predecessors.

So it was an online storage kind of product.

But it was like you could store maybe like 50 megabytes of data in Yahoo Briefcase.

And for us, we had finally achieved a gigabyte of storage that you could have online.

And we were like the modern, simpler, faster, easier, you know, kind of more up-to-date version of Yahoo Briefcase.

And we got called in by the corp dev team.

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