Assorted Bits
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Assorted Bits was a Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2012 by Aston Motes — the first employee at Dropbox. Its product was a mobile calendar 'for all the fun stuff you do with friends,' letting people plan social events together. YCDB later lists the company as dead.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Assorted Bits is founded by Aston Motes (Dropbox's first employee) and joins Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch with a mobile calendar for planning fun social events with friends.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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