Jack claims that he saw a call for Instagram users to report an account that “posted very sexually explicit photos of boys” over the weekend. “This is going to be an actual serious video,” says Jack, the 16-year-old founder and admin of who, like all minors in this piece, is referred to by his first name only because of privacy concerns. The initial offering price has yet to announced. The stock will be listed on the NASDAQ under the stock ticker DBX.The viral campaign started when the Instagram meme account uploaded a video to Youtube on Monday morning. The company's last valuation was at $10 billion in 2014. While at Y Combinator, the startup attracted interest from tech elites like Michael Moritz, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs, who famously said the startup's core online storage offering was "a feature, not a product" and that Apple would destroy it. In December, Y Combinator announced plans for a development program for later-stage startups.ĭropbox founder Drew Houston applied twice to Y Combinator before the selective incubator accepted his application in the summer of 2007. Led by Sam Altman and founded by Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Jessica Livingston, and Trevor Blackwell in 2005, Y Combinator quickly rose to prominence as a program for young startups to gain a network of investors and advisors, in addition to seed funding, in exchange for the incubator taking an equity stake. While the Silicon Valley-based incubator has overseen the development of several successful companies like, Airbnb, Docker, and Instacart, Dropbox will be the first within the Y Combinator program to go public.
On Friday, file hosting service Dropbox filed its S-1, making it the first Y Combinator company to ever file for an IPO. It was the second time that Houston had applied to the program. Y Combinator accepted Dropbox founder Drew Houston's application for Dropbox in 2007.On Friday, Dropbox filed its S-1, making it the first among Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator's companies to ever file for an IPO.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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