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Dropbox

Information Technology

Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Dropbox was founded in 2007 by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi as a startup company, with initial funding from the seed accelerator Y Combinator.

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Sector (GICS)
Information Technology 1
Offering Kind
Service 1
Launch Year
2008 1
Maker
Dropbox, Inc. 1
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Entity identity for the business product-service.sector GICS enum value this member already carries, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket pilot (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decision 2026-09-28 on business product-service.sector, w-bucketpilot-gics-0929). The sector fact itself, with its own citation, remains on the member entity unchanged; this edge only adds the durable entity identity the enum value already names.

Sources
1. Dropbox - Wikipedia
  • History, paragraph 2
    Dropbox was officially launched at 2008's TechCrunch Disrupt
  • Lead, paragraph 1
    operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc.
  • Introduction, GICS sector classification
    Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.
  • Introduction, offering kind classification
    Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.
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Wikidata: Dropbox
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