Skip to content

Comment on TechCrunch Tours Dropbox Officesparent

Comments

You're not going to find accurate answers to questions about bottom-line numbers of a privately held company by asking in a public forum.

What is publicly known is that Dropbox passed 4 million users a year ago (http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=339), and that according to Crunchbase they have not raised any outside funding since 2008. Infer from that what you will.

Typical conversion rate is 1-2%. That's at least 40,000 paying customers. At $10/mo (that's the maximum revenue per subscriber) that's $400,000 a month, or $4.8M a year. The key here is they are a growing, revenue-generating company.

Considering that Facebook has like 500m users, yet doesn't charge any of them, and they're valued at $50B or whatever, and yet DropBox has 4m users and does bring in $10+/month from a good percentage of them, I'm going to guestimate that DropBox is profitable in at least the millions of dollars annually range. And that's a very conservative guestimate.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.