Dropbox CEO drops in & Softbank's $40B OpenAI bet

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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It's been almost 20 years since Drew Houston founded Dropbox in an effort to solve the problem of forgotten USB sticks. But how is the company innovating in a now much busier market? Plus Softbank makes a $40billion investment in OpenAI, while a new book allegedly tells the inside story of Sam Altman's 2023 (temporary) dismissal.

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0:00.0	So you know how last week one of the things we're talking about was vibe coding? Well, I was
0:08.3	successful because I've actually vibe coded a video game guy. Yeah, you managed to do it. Yep. Do you
0:13.6	want to know what it's called? Go on. Meatball mania. Okay. And how do you play? You maniac?
0:21.6	So hold on.
0:22.6	I'll bring up the exact prompt.
0:25.6	Meatball Mania.
0:27.6	Can you share screen?
0:29.6	No, that's too complicated here.
0:32.6	Says the techie, the newfound techie.
0:35.6	I can't share my screen. Anyway, I put in my
0:39.3	prompt. I want to make a video game retro style kind of like Super Mario Brothers where the
0:44.5	Swedish chef is fighting the meatball monster. Yes. And then you press enter and then all of a sudden
0:50.2	the window opens on the right and all this code starts coming down the screen like the Matrix.
0:59.8	And then what did you do with that? then it goes it's it's showing its work while it's writing this code and then it's like ready ding would you like to play my game yeah because i made
1:09.7	a landing page.
1:11.8	Ooh.
1:13.1	Yeah.
1:13.5	Well,
1:13.9	you know.
1:16.5	You're getting all techy.
1:18.3	Can you find the chat box?
1:20.2	Studio chat.
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