Dropbox was the first truly cross-platform, cloud-based storage service. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Dropbox almost single-handedly created the cloud-based storage market as we know it.

One company in particular, however, would exceed the expectations of Y Combinator’s demanding panel of judges, later becoming one of Silicon Valley’s earliest “unicorn” companies and the first Y Combinator company to go public. Cloud-based distributed database company, Cloudant, was another. Online commenting platform Disqus was among the companies that showcased their products that day. Most companies that presented on that fateful Thursday didn’t make it, but some did. Only four of the 19 companies participating in Demo Day 2007 had working betas. They were there for Demo Day, Y Combinator’s highly-anticipated biannual startup showcase. If you invited people to a folder, you can also unshare that folder.On Thursday, August 9th, 2007, the founders of 19 startups gathered at the now-defunct office of the Y Combinator (YC) accelerator in Cambridge, Massachusetts.To remove access, you’ll need to delete the shared link that person is accessing the file from. If this is the case, you’ll see a message that says People who viewed via link can’t be removed from files. If the Remove option is greyed out, it's likely that the member is accessing the file or folder through a link to the file, rather than as an added member.When you remove a member from a file, that person can no longer access your version of the file on or through their invite.Notes about removing people from a file or a folder Click the dropdown menu beside the name of the person you want to remove from the file.

Click the share icon (rectangle with an up arrow).Hover over the name of the file or folder.How to remove a member from a file or folder Note: A shared link can only be deleted by the person who created it. Click either Link for editing or Link for viewing depending on which link you’d like to remove.Click Settings or the gear icon in the top right.Hover over the name of the file or folder you want to unshare and click the share icon (rectangle with up arrow).If you delete a link and click the Share button next to a file, all previous members still appear in the list, but the link is deactivated and no longer works for anyone.

You can remove a member that gained access to a file or folder via a shared link you created by deleting the link.

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