Y Combinator's Garry Tan urges Dropbox to lift its 3TB consumer limit to handle scaling AI data footprints

@garrytan How is Dropbox still a thing

Is it just so unprofitable to host data in the cloud that nobody bothers competing?

Insane that if you share me a file it takes space on both of our accounts

@garrytan Power 🤔

@garrytan @rubenharris Sounds like you want a business plan.

I recall one early employee set it to max int.

@garrytan We need 3.4TB plan

@garrytan Dropbox stopped innovating over 10 years ago

@garrytan we need to catch up a few decades of internet upload speed too

I had more upload speed 20yrs ago outside the US and cheaper

@garrytan Dropbox feels like it relegated itself to being a legacy tech company by how they'd handled their platform over the last several years.

@garrytan who is storing data in dropbox???

@debamitro @garrytan iCloud is Apple ecosystem. Google can and does remove your files if you have “suspected pirated” content, AKA things you’ve paid for and want to back up. Dropbox is agnostic to platform and does not leave you at the mercy of Google.

@garrytan who uses them when Google workspace is great for work and iCloud is great for home

@garrytan “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”

As YC’s CEO, Garry isn’t bashing Dropbox at all. To me, he’s sending a clear signal to all founders: whoever can help individuals and small teams handle this explosion of usable data will seize the next wave of productivity tools.

Anyone building AI agents, personal operating systems, or cognitive tools needs to take this message to heart.

Your users will soon demand a data backend capable of housing their entire AI-driven lives—not just a 2015-era file sync service.

@garrytan 3TB in 2026 is a joke

@garrytan I thought they were a YC co? Maybe their inbox for complaints is only 1gb.

For most of us they are a company we used to know, like Bebo or MySpace. I thought they had been resigned to legacy years ago.

@garrytan While i agree..... do people REALLY still use dropbox like they used to? I dont know if I've talked to anyone in the past 5 years that uses it unless it's for throwing something on someone elses account.

And I do a ton of handoffs for photography clients.

@garrytan 3TB used to feel impossible to fill. Now it’s one bad agent loop and two video exports

@garrytan the 3tb cap is definitely the wall for solo power users. while they offer 15tb+ pooled storage on team plans, the jump from personal to a 3-user minimum is a massive friction point. they’re essentially forcing individuals into enterprise pricing just for more bits.

@shawmakesmagic @garrytan They have huge enterprise accounts

@garrytan do people still use Dropbox?

@garrytan We gotchu