He refocused the company on file sharing and remote document access, placing it in competition with Dropbox Inc. In May 2012, a former AOL and Yahoo! executive, Brad Garlinghouse, was appointed as CEO. acquired a developer of Microsoft Outlook add-ons, Attassa, and an iPhone app developer, Zosh. YouSendIt grew as file recipients saw how the service works, reaching 100,000 paying users and 8.5 million registered users by March 2009. Ivan Koon took over as CEO and YouSendIt continued to raise a total of $49 million. In 2011, Shaikh pleaded guilty to making denial of service (DoS) attacks on the website for the YouSendIt service between December 2008 to June 2009. Within a few years, Khalid and Amir Shaikh left the company, while Kumaran stayed in a product management and marketing role.
Afterwards, there was a falling out between the founders. $5 million in funding was raised in August 2005.
At first, YouSendIt was mainly used to send large files, such as photos or audio files, which were too large for the file-size limits set by email providers at the time. That September, Cambrian Ventures invested $250,000. By May 2004, the company had 300,000 users and was growing 30 percent each month. In its early years, Amir pursued advertising revenues, Jimmy Vienneau managed business development, Francis Wu created the graphic design including the logo, while Kumaran focused on the user experience and Khalid did technical work. in 2004 by three cofounders: Ranjith Kumaram, Amir Shaikh and Khalid Shaikh. In 2018, Hightail was acquired by OpenText. In May 2015, the company launched Hightail Spaces, designed to encourage creative professionals from conception of an idea to delivery. The service can now be used via the web, a desktop client, mobile devices, or from within business applications using a Hightail plugin. The service grew quickly, and the firm raised $49 million in funding between 20. The company's early focus was on helping users send files that were too large for email it started adding features and plug-ins for businesses in 2007. were founded in 2004 the company renamed itself Hightail in 2013. Hightail, formerly YouSendIt, is a cloud service that lets users send and receive digitally sign and synchronize files. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's terms of use.
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