@jamwt: My co-founder and I left Dropbox the same day. We deliberately didn't talk to each other for the next few months. It wa…
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A founder recounts leaving Dropbox with his co-founder, taking months off during COVID, and then deciding to start Convex together.
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My co-founder and I left Dropbox the same day. We deliberately didn’t talk to each other for the next few months.
It was COVID. Both of us were a bit burnt out and decided to go hang out with our families for a while. We agreed that if we’re still excited about working together when we resurface, it wouldn’t be too hard to come up with an idea.
That was pretty much how @convex was born.
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