Reading
How DropBox Started As A Minimal Viable Product | TechCrunch
The Dropbox video demo is still the cleanest argument for shipping a story before the infrastructure. I use it when someone wants a platform before the first user has a reason to care.
Why I saved this
MVP is not a smaller backlog. It is the smallest artifact that can be believed. I point hiring managers and teammates at this clip when a v1 is secretly a rewrite.
The TechCrunch piece is the source. I am not retelling the founding story here.