Money and Finance
- Follow-up: Downloading Earnings Calls
A couple of years ago, I had brought up this topic HERE. Sometimes calls allow one to save as an MP3 file, and sometimes they don't. I am not too tech savvy, so I don't know why. Earnings Cast allows one to download a lot of them, which has been...
- "one Of History’s Few Iron Laws Is That Luxuries Tend To Become Necessities And To Spawn New Obligations."
From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it....
- Links
1976 Buffett Letter About Geico (LINK) Generalizing the Kelly Criterion (LINK) Illusions and the Art of Paying Attention (LINK) Andrew Smithers: US economy: the persistent myth of deleveraging (LINK) Dropbox Slashes Its Price As the Cost of a Gigabyte...
- Inside Dropbox’s Quest To Bury The Hard Drive
If you haven’t tried Dropbox yet but would like to, my referral link (for free extra storage) is HERE. Thanks. Drew Houston, the 30-year-old CEO and cofounder of Dropbox, is supposed to be having his Steve Jobs moment. In an auditorium packed with elite...
- Ipad Apps For The Value Investor
I'm looking for suggestions on any good iPad apps for those more technologically sophisticated than I am. I'd like to find the best apps for reading annual reports, etc. where I can highlight sections and have those highlights saved separately...
Money and Finance
Meet the Man Who Sold a Month-Old App to Dropbox for $100M
When Mailbox sold itself to Dropbox for a reported $100 million or so this March, the month-old iPhone app wasn’t even available to the public. People could download the email organizer, but using it required joining a mailing list that stretched to nearly 800,000 names at one point.
Mailbox was popular because it provided innovative new ways to organize and clear an inbox. Users can swipe a message to the left to “snooze” it, a command that instructs Mailbox to resurface the email after a set period of time. Other swipes — hard left, right, or hard right — archive, delete, or file messages.
Today, Mailbox is releasing its first new product from within Dropbox, an iPad version of its flagship iPhone app. Future releases will bring Mailbox to Android and enable support for Yahoo mail and other services beyond Gmail.
We sat down with Mailbox CEO and co-founder Gentry Underwood to ask about his app’s incredibly rapid success and its future within Dropbox.
- Follow-up: Downloading Earnings Calls
A couple of years ago, I had brought up this topic HERE. Sometimes calls allow one to save as an MP3 file, and sometimes they don't. I am not too tech savvy, so I don't know why. Earnings Cast allows one to download a lot of them, which has been...
- "one Of History’s Few Iron Laws Is That Luxuries Tend To Become Necessities And To Spawn New Obligations."
From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it....
- Links
1976 Buffett Letter About Geico (LINK) Generalizing the Kelly Criterion (LINK) Illusions and the Art of Paying Attention (LINK) Andrew Smithers: US economy: the persistent myth of deleveraging (LINK) Dropbox Slashes Its Price As the Cost of a Gigabyte...
- Inside Dropbox’s Quest To Bury The Hard Drive
If you haven’t tried Dropbox yet but would like to, my referral link (for free extra storage) is HERE. Thanks. Drew Houston, the 30-year-old CEO and cofounder of Dropbox, is supposed to be having his Steve Jobs moment. In an auditorium packed with elite...
- Ipad Apps For The Value Investor
I'm looking for suggestions on any good iPad apps for those more technologically sophisticated than I am. I'd like to find the best apps for reading annual reports, etc. where I can highlight sections and have those highlights saved separately...