All of our Dropbox articles

Sales

0-$5M: How to Go From Random Wins to Repeatable Revenue

When every deal closes differently, how do you build repeatability? First Round Partner Meka Asonye shares proven tactics from founders and revenue leaders who've solved this exact puzzle.

Product

“Sweat the Details” and Other Commandments for Mapping Out a Career in Product

Veteran product leader Jiaona Zhang walks us through the biggest lessons from her entire career in product at Dropbox, Airbnb, WeWork and now Webflow, from breaking into the function as a first-time PM to tactical tips for navigating transitions into more senior roles.

Starting Up

A UX Research Crash Course for Founders — Customer Discovery Tips from Zoom, Zapier & Dropbox

Zoom’s Jane Davis answers all of your tricky customer development questions, creating a highly tactical guide for founders flying solo on UX research as they explore startup ideas, validate concepts, iterate on prototypes, and troubleshoot common product problems.

Engineering

How to Build a Culture of Ownership, and Other Engineering Leadership Tips from Plaid & Dropbox

Jean-Denis Grèze has led engineering teams at Plaid and Dropbox: Here’s what he’s learned about crafting a bottoms-up culture, hiring and motivating large teams.

Design

Defining Growth Design: The Guide to the Role Most Startups are Missing

Angel Steger serves as our guide on a trek to better understand the still developing speciality of growth design. She shares lessons learned from her roles leading the function at Dropbox and Pinterest, and outlines tactics for early-stage startups looking to source, interview and onboard growth des

Product

Find, Vet and Close the Best Product Managers

Todd Jackson is skilled at identifying excellent product managers. Now Dropbox's VP of Product and Design, he shares his process here.

Product

How Dropbox Sources, Scales and Ships Its Best Product Ideas

Dropbox's product engineering leader shares how a hybrid product development approach propels its best ideas.

Engineering

This Is What Impactful Engineering Leadership Looks Like

Jessica McKellar, former founder and now engineering manager at Dropbox, shares the tenets that have made her an effective technical leader.

Management

Drew Houston’s Morph from Hacker to Hyper-Growth CEO

Dropbox Founder and CEO Drew Houston turned a great piece of software into a massive business. Here's how he got there.

Management

How to Win as a First-Time Founder, a Drew Houston Manifesto

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston shares his strategy for getting up to speed fast to succeed as a novice founder.

Management

Hyper-Growth Done Right - Lessons From the Man Who Scaled Engineering at Dropbox and Facebook

Aditya Agarwal, VP of Engineering at Dropbox, talks about how he was able to scale their engineering team while maintaining productivity.

Product

Dropbox's Head of Design on the Dawn of Personalized Products

As one of the first designers at Facebook and Dropbox, Soleio Cuervo has seen a lot. Now he's looking at the next trend: Personalization.