A Great Idea Before its Time (and Dropbox) - Eric Kennedy

I’m the CEO referenced at the bottom of Eric’s post. Eric joined the Jobster team as a founder, long before we wrote any code. He was actually something like employee #4 or 5 or something like that. He was also our first technical program manager / product manager. I’ll always remember when I was researching Eric’s background how I stumbled upon his senior project at Yale, and how for more than a few hours I seriously considered scrapping the entire Jobster social recruiting idea and just turning Eric’s personal-cloud-storage idea into our company’s “one thing” instead. Ooops! We could have been DropBox if we had played those cards right. (DropBox eventually took a similar approach to solving a complex problem as Eric had defined 5 years prior, in 2002. Oh, and DropBox has done fairly well with that…to the tune of $100M in revenue.)

You’ve heard of DropBox, right? Well, this was 2002, and DropBox was founded 5 years later.

Sure, you could use rsync to sync your files, but it was too complicated for 99.999% of people. The primary reason for DropBox’s success is its simplicity.

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