Inside The Psychobox: A Tour Of Dropbox's Bumping Office

Jason Kincaid

Jason Kincaid worked as a writer for TechCrunch from April 2008 through 2012. He grew up in Danville, California and later relocated to UCLA in Los Angeles, California, where he studied biology with a minor in ‘Society and Genetics’. You can reach him at jkincaid@gmail.com → Learn More

Thursday, February 10th, 2011


It’s time for another tour of a hot tech company’s office, and this week brings us one of my favorites: Dropbox. The service makes it easy to share files between multiple computers, and their office is loaded with neat memorabilia, games, and unreasonably tall people.

Make sure to watch til the very end for a surprise, twist ending. That I won’t be able to live down for quite a while.

And in case you missed them before, make sure to check out our previous episodes:

Credit to Ashley Pagán and John Murillo for the camera work, and to Mr. Murillo for the great editing.

Company: Dropbox
Website: dropbox.com
Launch Date: June 1, 2007
Funding: $257M

Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Frustrated by working from multiple computers, Drew was inspired to create a service that would let people bring all their files anywhere, with no need to email around attachments. Drew created a demo of Dropbox and showed it to fellow MIT student Arash Ferdowsi, who dropped out with only one semester left to help make Dropbox a reality. Guiding their decisions was a relentless focus on crafting a...

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