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Dropbox founder Drew Houston was on The Tim Ferriss Show recently and discussed how his business was able to get the Dropbox.com domain name. It’s a long interview, but tune in around 1:12:25 to hear the story.

They started with GetDropbox.com but obviously wanted to drop the ‘get’. After getting brushed off by the domain owner many times, Houston and his co-founder drove to the guy’s house with a bottle of champagne...

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[cooljub]

Not the nicest way to get a name. Seems pretty devious really.

 

[Windoms]

At 300k I would've taken 250k cash 50k stocks.
Even in deep financial sh*t 290k cash 10k stocks.
I guess he was angry.

 

[richasis]

I'd have offered him TempBox for a fraction of that money...and I rarely drink champagne.