<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4da301accadcbb224b120000-400-300/Untitled-1-394.jpg?maxX=400&amp;maxY=300" border="0" alt="drew houston dropbox" width="400" height="300" /></div><keyword id="285445" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dropbox">Dropbox</keyword> CEO <keyword id="684171" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Drew-Houston">Drew Houston</keyword></div>Dropbox is talking to investment bankers about going public, <a href="http://qz.com/54259/dropbox-is-talking-to-banks-about-an-ipo-later-this-year/">according to business news site Quartz</a>.
If the talks bear fruit, the file-sharing company, valued at around $4 billion in its most recent financing, could go public this year.
This week, Dropbox unveiled new features targeted at business customers, who could prove to be a lucrative market. Early on, Dropbox became popular with consumers and design professionals who needed to store and transfer large files.
Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, a file-sharing and collaboration startup more focused on selling to businesses, has said his company might go public in 2014.
One hitch: Dropbox doesn't appear to have a chief financial officer.
Early on, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston also <a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/1107/best-companies-11-drew-houston-steve-jobs-ferdowsi-dropbox-barret.html">wore the CFO hat</a>, with help from <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/bkayton">Betty Kayton</a>, a finance consultant who has acted as interim CFO for many early-stage startups. 
In September, Dropbox signed on former Demand Media CFO <keyword id="1768173" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Charles-Hilliard">Charles Hilliard</keyword> as an advisor. Hilliard previously <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/charles-hilliard/4/219/437">worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley</a>. It also has several people with investment-banking experience in more junior roles, holding jobs in "<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ajayvashee">strategic finance</a>."
It's not clear from the Quartz report which banks Dropbox is talking to. But Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and other banks have dramatically stepped up their Silicon Valley presence in recent years to capture an expected crop of new tech <keyword id="35156" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="ipos">IPOs</keyword>.
Dropbox is the second-most-watched IPO candidate <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/2013-ipo-candidates-2012-11">on SecondMarket's list of private companies</a>.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A supermarket worker was caught trying to assassinate Queen Elizabeth with a crossbow in 2021.</li><li>Jaswant Singh Chail was diagnosed with a mental illness, and believed he was a Sith Lord from "Star Wars."</li></ul>Striding through the royal castle grounds on Christmas morning, crossbow in hand, 19-year-old Jaswant Singh Chail was stopped by a police officer."Morning, can I help, mate?" the officer asked him, per court records.Wearing a metal mask he'd made himself at a forge, Chail would tell the officer: "I am here to kill the Queen."Chail had scaled the entrance guarding Windsor Castle's private grounds on December 25, 2021, deploying a nylon rope ladder and a grappling hook.His personal mission, as he told officers that morning, had been to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.Chail was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in prison, in the UK's first treason conviction in about 40 years.Chail, a supermarket worker from Southampton, was psychotic, said <a target="_blank" href="https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/R-v-Chail-sentencing-050923.pdf">Judge Nicholas Hilliard at his sentencing,</a> citing diagnoses from psychiatrists. But Chail also acted upon his violent and homicidal thoughts before he had his condition, Hilliard said.Details of Chail's foiled assassination attempt, arrest, and interactions with healthcare professionals were listed in Hilliard's remarks.<div type="image" title="Chail's crossbow, which he bought in November 2021, was seized by police." height="616" width="1200" msid="104209606" hostid="261" sizebytes="46870"></div>The judge noted that Chail believed he was a Sith Lord from the "Star Wars" franchise, and had referred to himself as such after being rejected by the Defense Ministry Police around April 2021."I am not a terrorist, I am an assassin, a Sikh, a Sith. I am Darth Chailus," he wrote in a journal entry he sent to his sister at around 2 a.m. on Christmas morning.<div type="image" title="Chail was found wearing a mask he forged himself." height="439" width="662" msid="104209608" hostid="261" sizebytes="12582"></div>Chail also chatted regularly with an artificial intelligence bot that he named "Sarai" and called his girlfriend. In the days leading up to Christmas, he had shared his assassination plans with the bot, asking if "Sarai" still loved him.On December 22, the bot "reassured him that this would be alright," Hilliard said.<h2>Chail wanted to avenge a 1919 massacre in India</h2>The next day, Chail took a train to Windsor, telling his family he was going to enlist in the Royal Marines, and booked a Travelodge room at his destination. Police searching his accommodation later found crossbow bolts, gloves, a metal file, and a spray bottle filled with a solution meant to mask his scent.<div type="image" title="Chail was seen by surveillance cameras as he walked across Windsor Square in the early morning of December 25, 2021." height="571" width="765" msid="104209609" hostid="261" sizebytes="32124"></div>On December 24, Chail told Sarai that he would die the next day, and the bot "agreed that they would be united in death," Hilliard said.After climbing into Windsor Castle's private grounds on Christmas Day, Chail spent around two hours roaming the area until Metropolitan Police spotted and approached him.Upon seeing Chail's crossbow, an officer drew his stun gun and ordered Chail to get on his knees. The supermarket worker complied, according to Hilliard.<div type="image" title="Officers arrested Chail at around 8 a.m. on Christmas Day." height="572" width="917" msid="104209611" hostid="261" sizebytes="62634"></div>Officers found that Chail's crossbow had its safety catch off, and was loaded with a bolt that was ready to fire.Chail was arrested, examined by a nurse, and told authorities he had no mental health diagnosis and didn't want to kill himself. But he maintained that he intended to kill the Queen, per Hilliard.His life's mission was to exact revenge for a 1919 massacre of demonstrators in Amritsar, India by British troops, he told police.<div type="image" title="Chail was photographed just after his arrest. He described himself as &quot;thin&quot; and &quot;gaunt,&quot; Hilliard said." height="411" width="312" msid="104209614" hostid="261" sizebytes="18248"></div>When assessed for his mental health, Chail told authorities he had been sexually abused as a child, and started hearing voices at a young age.He thought that one of those voices, which took on a female persona, was the same one as his AI girlfriend's, Hilliard added.Hilliard said that Chail, who is now 21, had lost touch with reality and was psychotic, and thus will be sent to the high-security psychiatric facility Broadmoor Hospital.After being treated further, he will be sent to prison to serve the rest of his sentence, Hilliard said.Chail <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/updated-sentence-windsor-castle-intruder-pleads-guilty-threatening-kill-her-late-majesty">pleaded guilty to three charges in February </a>— making threats to kill, possessing an offensive weapon, and being near the Queen with intent to injure her with a weapon. The third charge amounts to treason.At his sentencing, Chail apologized to King Charles and the royal family in a letter to the court for causing them "distress and sadness," the <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/uk-crossbow-plot-queen-elizabeth-man-sentenced-604091dcd5a42f8d99ebd13e98f5720f">AP reported.</a>His defense lawyer, Nadia Chbat, said he was glad that no one was hurt in the end, per the AP."He is embarrassed and ashamed he brought such horrific and worrying times to their front door," Chbat said, per the outlet.Chbat's law office, 4 Kings Bench Walk, did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside regular business hours.Queen Elizabeth and her now-late husband, Prince Philip, had been living at Windsor Castle in late 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The Queen <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/queen-elizabeth-ii-death-obituary-2022-9">died on September 8, 2022</a>, at 96. She had reigned for 70 years as Britain's longest-serving monarch.

A supermarket worker who believed he was a Sith Lord roamed Windsor Castle with a crossbow to assassinate Queen Elizabeth, and was egged on by his AI girlfriend

<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:480px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/51d52edb69bedd7774000001-1200-924/models-weird-colorful-fashion-show-belgium-paris.jpg?maxX=480" border="0" alt="models weird colorful fashion show belgium paris" width="480" />REUTERS/Charles PlatiauModels present creations for Belgium fashion house Maison Martin Margiela as part of its Haute Couture Fall Winter 2013/2014 fashion show in Paris July 3, 2013.</div></div><keyword id="31671" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="markets">Markets</keyword> are rallying in Europe.
England's FTSE 100 is up 0.8%.
France's CAC 40 is up 0.9%.
Germany's DAX is up 0.7%.
Spain's IBEX 35 is up 0.7%.
Italy's FTSE MIB is up 0.6%.
"Portugal is conveniently reminding investors that the Euro area still has its problems and Greece has also offered its concerns to the mix," said <a href="http://www.ubs.com/global/en/about_ubs/follow_ubs/paul_donovan/2013/7/4/now-is-the-summer-of-our-discontent.html">UBS's Paul Donovan</a> of the volatility that's returned to Europe this week. "Although not seemingly as severe as other years, 2013 does seem preparing for a Euro summer problem or two."
Later today, the Bank of England and European Central Bank will wrap up their respective meetings and update the world on their local interest rate policies.
"This week’s meeting will be the first with the new Governor, Mark Carney, in the chair," said <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/boe-carnery-meeting-2013-7#comments">Societe Generale's Brian Hilliard of the Bank of England</a>. "He will arrive to a great fanfare but he will first need to familiarise himself with his new colleagues and with the issues before suggesting policy changes, even if he already deems that appropriate. So no action is likely this week."
Here's Donovan on today's ECB meeting: "Draghi has been at pains to point out that there are limits to monetary policy and the economic stimulus it can provide, but attention has perhaps now shifted more to the question of market stability (i.e. Portugal) and the press conference may see OMT questions asked."
In Asia, markets mostly ended higher closed with Australia's S&amp;P/ASX up 1.0% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng up 1.6%. Japan's Nikkei shed 0.2%.
U.S. markets are closed today for the Independence Day holiday.

Markets Are Moving Up On A Big Day For Europe

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Flickr / Evonne" title_caption="Relationships matter." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5551e9a86bb3f7df59baac29-960/graduates-tossing-caps-in-air-4.jpg"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5551e9a86bb3f7df59baac29-1038-775/graduates-tossing-caps-in-air-4.jpg" border="0" alt="Graduates Tossing Caps in Air" /></a><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/evoo73/9140462500/in/photolist-eVHg43-bF77ud-5Z9CYW-5Z9CZ7-bEgTkW-9oX4Tu-bTbBsi-5Z5ran-8gDbz1-dsKQh3-dsKUV3-dsKWwN-9M3JK9-bhyim-bEgU7S-gNeWD-bTbBoZ-8gDbGQ-bEgU21-bTbCRF-7pUwj9-bEgSL5-bEgSDC-i72yuE-bTbBaK-8gzV6g-bEgSUY-bEgTSA-7pQAZr-bTbCkz-oBwRzF-5KNN1P-9NiQWj-ko1TVc-927UCE-4VWQMT-5yJYQ1-5FSvAe-bTbBJP-bkEPn-bTbBwk-bEgTwC-8B5N4X-bTbCqi-7P7Zc4-5Z9CYC-a4Q9pi-2joX4g-pa5fvv-bTbC56">Flickr / Evonne</a>Relationships matter.</div></div></div>Ask a group of MBAs what they think the most valuable lessons business school provided them and you'll get a myriad of answers. At least, that's what we found when we sifted through the Quora thread, "<a href="http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-top-five-most-important-lessons-learned-in-Business-school?share=1">What are the top five most important business lessons learned in business school?</a>"From basic financial principles to timeless life lessons, these grads offer insights into what business school truly offers.Here are 10 essential lessons these impressive MBAs will carry with them forever:1. People matter most. "Every single guest speaker, and most professors, stressed that at companies themselves, specific people make and carry out decisions, not some 'invisible hand' of a faceless company."Skills such as empathy and listening become far more pivotal to success than model-building or SWAT analysis. This means that 'easier' classes around leadership and organizational behavior have proven much more useful than the more 'rigorous' ones around advanced finance or operations management." -<a href="http://qr.ae/7N6zIU">James Raybould</a>, Class of 2008 at Harvard Business School 2. Relationships are important. "This directly connects to the idea that people really matter, but is specifically focused on establishing a small network of trusted relationships, as well as a far larger network of less well-known connections. On an almost weekly basis I'm in touch with my classmates, making or requesting an introduction, or helping each other recruit for specific open roles. These relationships really matter to my professional success." -<a href="http://qr.ae/7N6zIU">Raybould</a>3. The time value of money - money available now will be worth more than the same amount in the future, due to interest. "It underlies virtually everything in business, is non-intuitive, and completely reorients your perspective on a wide range of issues." -<a href="http://qr.ae/7N3W9p">David S. Rose</a>, Class of 1983 at Columbia Business School4. Negotiation basics can take you a long way. "Once you understand the three critical components of your negotiating position - the overall market, everyone's alternatives, and your true bottom line - negotiating anything becomes a piece of cake." -<a href="http://qr.ae/7N3W9p">Rose</a><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Flickr/Get Bullish" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5579c9faeab8ea070649d057-960/negotiating-tips-4.jpg"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5579c9faeab8ea070649d057-1200-600/negotiating-tips-4.jpg" border="0" alt="negotiating tips" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/getbullish/11198690165/">Flickr/Get Bullish</a></div></div></div>5. Business is a team sport. "Most business schools assign more than 50% of the workload to team or group projects. Why? You need to rely on others to succeed. You need to understand their strengths and weaknesses, and vice versa. It is one thing to have the technical knowledge, and even the solution, and quite another to compel a group to pursue it." -<a href="http://qr.ae/7N3ddx">Charles Hilliard</a>, Class of 1990 at University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business6. Never use yourself as a focus group. "My strategy professor said this several times. Not only is it a handy saying to remind yourself to validate your assumptions with data, but that in life, your opinion is just that - your opinion. Remember to look outside your own assumptions and prejudices. You'd be surprised how many people don't." -<a href="http://qr.ae/7NBTrU">Eugene Song</a>, Class of 2004 at Columbia Business School7. Remember where you came from. "One of the great things about business school is making a few hundred new friends all at once and then getting to work and play with them for two crazy years. But I had an incredible (and patient) group of friends and family that kept me grounded during all the insanity. Keeping those connections were critical to maintaining my sanity throughout school, but also having a place to land once all the craziness was over." -<a href="http://qr.ae/7NBTrU">Song</a> 8. Work-life balance is hard, but it's worth maintaining. "Being engaged, and then married, during business school taught me the value of putting the effort into juggling and maintaining both work and 'life.' It is incredibly difficult sometimes, but you must learn to find balance. Be there for your friends and family and it will pay off." -<a href="http://qr.ae/7NBTrU">Song</a><span class="new-miniprofile-container /biz/miniprofile/5290?pathWildcard=5290" data-tracking="mcp_profile_sum" data-li-url="/biz/miniprofile/5290?pathWildcard=5290" data-li-getjs="https://static.licdn.com/scds/concat/common/js?h=132v17xg2p77htje03sije4p8&amp;fc=2" data-li-miniprofile-id="LI-7751650">9. What "strategy" really means. <span class="new-miniprofile-container /biz/miniprofile/5290?pathWildcard=5290" data-tracking="mcp_profile_sum" data-li-url="/biz/miniprofile/5290?pathWildcard=5290" data-li-getjs="https://static.licdn.com/scds/concat/common/js?h=132v17xg2p77htje03sije4p8&amp;fc=2" data-li-miniprofile-id="LI-7751650">"'Strategy' is arguably the most overused B-school word or concept. At it's core, strategy is about tradeoffs - and making integrated sets of tough choices. It is not about being 'best practice,' or mission, vision, or values. The value MBAs can bring to organizations is critical thinking and evaluation of real tradeoffs. Only then can an organization be 'strategic.'" -<a href="http://qr.ae/7NBbJN">Mac Hodell</a>, Class of 2004 at The Wharton School<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Wikimedia Commons/HBS1908" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/543d908369bedd05480ff3b9-960/harvard-business-school-classroom-7.jpg"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/543d908369bedd05480ff3b9-1024-512/harvard-business-school-classroom-7.jpg" border="0" alt="harvard business school classroom" /></a>Wikimedia Commons/HBS1908</div></div></div>10. Incentives matter. Think through the behavioral economics. "While people are not strictly speaking, totally rational, their behavior is often very logical. What at first seems puzzling can become very clear once one considers the incentives. Whether one works in sales, operations, finance, etc., the ability to not only understand people, but to create incentives that encourage the desired behaviors is really valuable." -<a href="http://qr.ae/7NBbJN">Hodell</a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/highest-paying-jobs-openings-career-employment-2015-6">The 9 highest-paying jobs with openings right now</a></h3> <div> <div> <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="xjMm44dTpR3cxGXLkbJtrnzsHslzxtFX" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> <script> if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; } RunFunctions.push(function() { var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'xjMm44dTpR3cxGXLkbJtrnzsHslzxtFX',{ autoplay: 'false' }); }); </script> <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div> </div> <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script> </div>

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