Dropbox shares surge as much as 50 percent on first day

Dropbox Hasn't Built a Moat

Dropbox Hasn't Built a Moat

However, as a public company Dropbox will be under pressure to quickly trim its losses.

Dropbox, Clark says, focused on creating a user experience that made the people who use the service happy.

As a result, the offering for Dropbox - along with the successful recent initial public offerings of other young companies - is good news for investors with large gains locked up in private companies.

The company raised $756 million in its initial public offering, Bloomberg reported, citing someone familiar with the information. Dropbox only sold roughly 9% of its stock in this week's offering. Sequoia also bought shares of the company at a lower price compared to the later lead investors.

"We're ready, and this is a step that we've been working on for a while", CEO Drew Houston told CNBC's " Squawk Alley " earlier Friday. Most of the startups with the highest valuations have put off IPOs as they still have access to ample amounts of private capital from big investors to fund their operations.

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The company competes with much larger technology firms such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon.com. That stands for simply over 40 percent development from the first cost, as well as offers the business an evaluation of over $12.5 billion. In 2018, however, all eyes have actually gotten on Dropbox as well as its very own strategies to go public.

The company posted revenue of $1.1 billion on a net loss of $111.7 million in 2017.

While the shares popped on their first day, the company's biggest challenge going forward will be converting more of its free users into paying customers.

Its rapid growth saw the Dropbox become a viral hit with consumers, and its popularity was such that the late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs once tried to buy it - then threatened to destroy it. Dropbox was one of the highest-profile examples, raising questions about the company's worth: In 2015, Fidelity Investments and BlackRock Inc. wrote down the value of their investments in the company by at least 15 percent. A photo caption in an earlier version of this article incorrectly stated his name was Arash Ferdows.

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