How Dropbox Turned Down The Almighty Apple And Took Off
Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi didn’t take the money and ran. Would you reject an $800 million acquisition offer from Apple if you had a hot cloud storage startup? Forbes throws its weight behind a recent rumor that implied Apple had made an attempt to acquire the hot cloud storage startup Dropbox. Author Victoria Barret opens the lengthy profile with an interesting anecdote: In December 2009 Jobs invited Houston and his partner, Arash Ferdowsi, for a meeting at his Cupertino office....