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A lot of people are asking how Dropbox became the fastest growing SaaS business ever, reaching a $1B revenue run rate in record time.

I saw signs of this explosive growth when I joined Dropbox in an Interim VP Marketing role one week after the public launch in 2008. Of course, Dropbox is a fantastic product, which really helped, but that doesn’t tell the whole story.

Kady Srinivasan, Dropbox’s current head of worldwide digital marketing, captured the key to their growth when I interviewed her last month at the GrowthHackers Conference. She explained that what’s unique about Dropbox is that the “entire company takes ownership of growth.”

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