Dropbox.com

“So Houston must combat a MySpace-like implosion by spending a lot of his war chest on ubiquity. He’s protecting his flank against Google via a new deal with phonemaker HTC, which will make Dropbox the default cloud storage option on every one of its Android phones. Deals with six other phone firms are almost inked; PC and television makers are next. Houston has hired a team to tailor Dropbox to businesses. A couple hundred outside developers are making apps for Dropbox.”

The Forbes profile on Dropbox.com has the generic rise-to-greatness form.

However, it’s still fucking inspirational. I hope anyone starting a start-up has half the innovation, passion and determination of both Houston and Ferdowsi.

A $250 million series B round is a fucking lot, however considering the competition includes box.net, ubuntu one, and the recently released iCloud, they face the challenge of - as the article highlights - ubiquity. While dropbox is getting synonymous with the cloud, 50 million users is paltry compared to the 200+ potential iCloud users. 

I really hope they keep on going strong. Don’t want Apple being the big brother now, do we?