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Sep 22, 2026
Alex HormoziHOST
The thing is, is there not a lot of profit left over and you won't have a big business.
Alex HormoziHOST
And so unless you have something that causes $0 to reproduce, you know, like, the Dropbox, right, virtually $0 to reproduce more storage, then it's very difficult to do something like that, right? The idea, if you want to create a fortune, is to think consistently, how can I make this so that no one stops buying? And in the software world, which I highly recommend you look at all the writers for business in software, because software is software as a service, right? SaaS, right? Now, that means that all the metrics and all the things that they have quantitatively been able to measure in software as a service A hundred percent applies to service because it's just software doing the job that service is supposed to be doing.
Alex HormoziHOST
And so if we can do that, right, if we can, if we can quantitate it in this way, quantify it in this way, then this is the, this is the three-step process that they go through when they're trying to create a billion dollar unicorn company.
Alex HormoziHOST
All right.
Javier LeivaHOST
This person didn't even use her own name.
Javier LeivaHOST
Like I said, she signed the email, "Not your business." And the Missouri Department of Corrections didn't even hesitate, because four days later, she received a Dropbox link with all of the audio files.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hey.
Gypsy Rose BlanchardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hey, Todd.
EmilyNARRATOR
Desperate for distraction, or for a clue, I dug out an old laptop, the one Mike used when his own machine was sluggish, and booted it up.
EmilyNARRATOR
It was still logged into his public Dropbox, full of files with cryptic names.
EmilyNARRATOR
Q3 wine tasting list, Anna shared M and C marketing notes.
EmilyNARRATOR
I clicked, reading, expecting just spreadsheets or photo PDFs.
EmilyNARRATOR
I'd just finished a call with the routes and range team, painfully aware that Marcus had bilayed last minute, texting that he was stuck in revisions, and would upload his changes soon.
EmilyNARRATOR
I stayed up, eyes burning, reviewing our shared Dropbox folder, only to find his contributions thin, barely changed, the same sketches drafted weeks ago.
EmilyNARRATOR
I sent him a message.
EmilyNARRATOR
Can we talk when you're done? No reply.
speaker_1HOST
It represents your global paths, your personal working habits, and your baseline security posture across the entire machine.
speaker_1HOST
Oh, and by the way, if you don't like having .files cluttering your home directory or you want to sync this folder via Dropbox or a .files repo, you can use the clod convictir environment variable to relocate this entire structure wherever you want.
speaker_0HOST
Pro tip right there.
speaker_0HOST
But there's a really subtle distinction the book makes in the home directory that I want to make sure we don't gloss over.
Andy MaiHOST
secure way to hold it.
Andy MaiHOST
How dangerous is it to keep things on like a Google Cloud, Dropbox? What's your recommended way to store passwords? Nowadays, you know, people probably have hundreds of different accounts, two-factor identification QR codes they take photos of.
Andy MaiHOST
What's the safest way to store it that is really cheap and convenient? But you're sort of like 80-20 rule.
Andy MaiHOST
You put in 20% of the effort, but you get 80% of the security.
Ryan PeltonHOST
Imagine somebody knows the police are coming to confiscate his laptop, okay? Oh, no, they're coming to get the Ryan Files computer.
Ryan PeltonHOST
Before they arrive, though, I'm going to upload copies of important files to Dropbox and Google Drive to another computer to a friend's server.
Ryan PeltonHOST
I'm going to make copies of it on a thumb drive and hide them and whatever.
Ryan PeltonHOST
Oh, the police seized the laptop, but did they get the file? Yeah, yeah, they got the files.
Fraser CainHOST
Storage full and previews will stop.
Fraser CainHOST
Can we get off of Dropbox?
Pamela GayHOST
Yeah.
Fraser CainHOST
Okay.
Fraser CainHOST
I'm like sick of this.
Fraser CainHOST
So I've got to delete files from Dropbox and...
Fraser CainHOST
And now it's pushing,
Pamela GayHOST
yeah,
Lucy BarnardGUEST
And I think that that fight wasn't worth the $60 that I was trying to save.
Lucy BarnardGUEST
And I think that in many cases, your ego needs to be left behind because honestly, your life is more important than your wallet, you know? And I had copies of everything on a Dropbox file and I know how to sign into that from a foreign computer so that if I lose my phone, which has happened a couple of times, then I know how to get all of my information back, all of my passwords, and it's not a complete catastrophe.
Lucy BarnardGUEST
You know what I mean? So, I mean, some of it you can learn from other people.
Lucy BarnardGUEST
But for me, I think the best place to start is both on that PSA document, the document that tells you what the policies are for your insurance.
Margaret FoleyGUEST
The change then we then saw within a period of about 18 months, builders, I mean, A, the facts disappeared, thank God, but builders and subcontractors started to really embrace being able to do things on the go, not have to be in their offices and doing them at home.
Margaret FoleyGUEST
So then I moved into the marketing technology space when everybody thought that Dropbox and email was a really good way to share documents and get things approved.
Margaret FoleyGUEST
I started with a tech company there.
Margaret FoleyGUEST
I think it was like employee number 13.
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