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August 31, 2011 10:30 am GMT

Speaking Of Dropbox, Heres My No. 1 Phone Prank

imgresEverything's candy and roses for Dropbox today as the company simultaneously breaks out the expensive champagne and whispers "no comment" to anyone asking about the news. No matter, though, I'm right here cheering them on, too. That's just how I roll. High fives, all alone, but there in spirit.Anyhow, all this reminiscing about the young days of Dropbox and I kept coming back to this one story. It happened about a year ago, at the Lobby Conference in Hawaii put on by August Capital. I've attended the conference each year and it's a blast. But there's one big rule - everything is off record - and if I break that rule I'll get banned from the event. So I spend the weekend somewhat under utilized. I still collect information quietly but don't say a word until I get back to the real world, and even then I'm hazy on whether or not my sources were drunk on Mai Tais at the time of disclosure. This is all true - just look back at the big stories I've broken in the week that follows the Lobby conference each year.Anyway, back to Dropbox CEO Drew Houston. A bunch of us are out at dinner. I'm sitting between Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson having their first heart to heart after Jay resigned as CEO of Digg. Kevin ate most of the sushi before it got down to me, and Jay drank all the alcohol before it made its way to me. So I was sitting there hungry and thirsty and listening to some of the best content I've heard in a long while and I was thinking if a permanent ban from the conference was worth it if I could just sneakily pull out my video camera and get a clip of Jay telling Kevin what he could go do to himself.

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