How DocSend sold to Dropbox for $165,000,000

Russ Heddleston, DocSend

When you hear that today’s guest sold his document sharing startup to Dropbox for $165M you might wonder how someone could be so lucky. Well, as you’ll hear in this interview, it was not an easy journey.

Russ Heddleston is the founder of DocSend which was acquired by Dropbox.

Russ Heddleston

DocSend

Russ Heddleston is the founder of DocSend which was acquired by Dropbox.

Andrew: Hey, they’re freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I interview entrepreneurs for an audience of entrepreneurs. me is someone whose software. I bet everybody in my audience has used at one point or another. In fact, I went to look for your name, uh, the guest is Russ Huddleston Russ.

When I went to look for your name in my inbox, and I look for Dropbox. I think just about every investor update, every investor communication that was sent to me was sent using DocSend your software. I feel like this software, or I thought before I, I read up on you for today’s interview, I just felt like a simple, brilliant idea. Russ, of his friends. Realize that we wanna send documents to each other. we wanna know if people have read them in control, who gets to see the simple, beautiful, elegant set off on tech crunch, whatever the conference was called at the time, hit it big with the tech community, grow to enterprise, sell to Dropbox for 165 million super...

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