Drew Houston
Drew Houston
Andrew W. "Drew" Houstonis an American Internet entrepreneur who is best known for being the founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service. According to Forbes magazine, his net worth is $1.39 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth4 March 1983
CityActon, MA
CountryUnited States of America
dream planning study
If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.
adventure writing practice
There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I’m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable. Every day we’re writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that’s made all the difference. Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
adventure giving perfect
Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
real mistake school
When you’re in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you’re not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you’re not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn’t failing; it’s getting too comfortable.
jobs ideas worst-case-scenario
Even if it doesn't work out, the experience is so valuable to so many employers that your worst case scenario is, 'Ok, so that was a bust, I'll get a six-figure job at whatever company.' Risk is this outmoded idea - your parents might not understand that, but taking these types of risks doesn't have a downside.
optimism entrepreneur tolerance
One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.
successful people important
The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.
doors problem ends
You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.
zero people dollars
The only way to learn on a zero dollar budget is to talk to people
thinking people entrepreneur
We've had customers from the beginning. The reason people use Dropbox is because they really love it. We think more about who is going to be competing with what we are going to be doing, not with where we started.
ifs
If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.
play differences making-a-difference
Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how farming works, all these things that aren't technical are being turned upside down by software. So being able to play in that universe really makes a difference.
average people growth
You become the average of the five people you hang out with.
mean data car
Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.