Sequoia's senior partner, Michael Moritz, showed up at Houston and Ferdowsi's apartment the following Saturday morning.
Dropbox was founded in San Francisco in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi.
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Ferdowsi from the start insisted Dropbox's home page be a simple stick-figure video showing what the product does.
Ferdowsi had a designer spend hours tweaking the shade of Dropbox's button inside the file system on a Mac.
"Mohawk Guy, " whose real name is Bobak Ferdowsi, has become famous for his look during the rover landing last week.
Houston and Ferdowsi moved offices again and often just slept at work.
McGregor says Ferdowsi has been on Twitter "a while" but his account went from several hundred followers on Saturday to more than 30, 000 Tuesday.
Immediately after, a slick-looking guy started chatting up Ferdowsi in Farsi.
Within days he had Houston and Ferdowsi in front of Sequoia, the firm that backed Google and Yahoo, claiming, falsely, Dropbox was fielding multiple VC offers.
Drew went out and got Arash Ferdowsi to ride shotgun.
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The Y Combinator company, founded in 2007 by Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, already has the majority of its users internationally and has paying customers in more than 175 countries.
While studying at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he and another student, Arash Ferdowsi, co-founded Dropbox in 2007 after becoming frustrated with email attachments and forgetting their USB storage drives.
In the 1980s when Iran's foreign currency reserves dried up, licensed exchange bureaux closed down and the black market was run by the street money-changers of Tehran's Ferdowsi Street.
Bobak Ferdowsi, a flight director who changed his hair style for every milestone in the mission, had buzzed the sides of his head and dyed it with stars and stripes.
Houston and Ferdowsi spent the next year pulling all-nighters.
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