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Portrait of Drew Houston

Drew Houston

(1983) Computer Scientist

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Drew Houston is a computer scientist, best known for Open Range.

Quick Facts About Drew Houston

Born: March 4, 1983
Profession: Computer Scientist
Notable works: Open Range

About Drew Houston

Andrew W. Houston is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service. According to Forbes, his net worth is about $2 billion. Houston held 24.4% of voting power in Dropbox before the company filed for IPO in February 2018. He has sat on the board of Meta Platforms since February 2020.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my…

Back

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One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a…

Actually

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No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

Born

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Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we…

Able

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You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can…

Broken

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With something like Dropbox, it was immediately like, 'Wow, this is literally something that anyone with an Internet connection could use.' Everyone…

Anyone

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I'd be like, alright, I don't know anything about sales. So I would search for sales on Amazon, get the three top-rated…

Alright

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You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say…

Business

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You have to adopt a mindset that says, 'Okay, in three months, I'll need to know all this stuff, and then in…

Five

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Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a…

Car

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Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make…

Book

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Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Adventure

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We've had customers from the beginning. The reason people use Dropbox is because they really love it. We think more about who…

Competing

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Where you live matters. Whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't…

Action

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You only have to be right once.

Once

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A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened…

Assets

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A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

Great

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You think about who needs Dropbox, and it's just about anybody with a pulse.

About

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People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are…

Actually

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Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make…

About

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Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That's, like, two billion people.

Anyone

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Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox…

About

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