In July of that year, YouSendIt announced its rebranding as Hightail, to represent its move beyond file sharing and into file collaboration services.
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In January 2013, YouSendIt acquired Found Software, a company that develops the Found for Mac application that searches for files on Macintosh computers and connected networks. Hightail began advertising against competitors Dropbox and Box with slogans like "Your files should be neither Dropped nor Boxed". 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.
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