We built EZ File Drop because we needed it.
It started with a problem we couldn't solve any other way.
In March 2020, the world went remote overnight. We're the founders of Gorilla Creative, a video production agency in the San Francisco Bay Area, and almost all of our work depended on getting footage from clients: interviews, testimonials, product clips, much of it recorded on phones.
When everyone scattered to home offices, the usual ways of moving files fell apart. Email attachments bounced. Shared folders meant handing clients access to things they shouldn't see and hoping nothing got deleted by accident. The file-transfer tools we tried either looked nothing like our brand or made the people sending us files jump through hoops.
We spent weeks looking for something better and never found it. So we built our own: a branded upload form that delivers files into our own cloud storage, with nothing for the client to install and no account for them to create. It worked. Our clients stopped asking how to send things, and we stopped chasing them.
Then other people started asking to use it too. That internal tool became EZ File Drop.
What we believe
EZ File Drop has changed a lot since 2020, but three ideas have stayed the same.
The person sending you a file shouldn't have to think about how. No account to create, no app to download, no instructions to follow. If it isn't effortless for the person on the other end, it isn't finished.
Every upload form, every share link, and every email your uploader sees should look like it came from you. We stay in the background so the people sending you files only ever see your brand, never ours.
This is the one we care about most. EZ File Drop is a pipeline, not a storage locker. Your files are delivered into your own cloud and stay there, where they belong to you and not to us.
The team
EZ File Drop is designed, built, and supported by our team, led by the two founders who started it.
An entrepreneur since before he could drive, Matt co-founded Gorilla Creative and serves as executive producer, bridging the business, technical, and creative sides of any project. He and his wife have two sons and two poodles.
A content creative by day and referee to a wild pack of children by night, Eric founded Stracke Visuals to help tech companies market with video, then co-founded Gorilla Creative, where he serves as creative director. He shares the ukulele, skiing, and camping with his five kids.