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
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.
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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
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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 do to fix it.
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You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.
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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 going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.
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When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way.
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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 lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.
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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 settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle, too - follow them. If the real action is happening somewhere else, move.
experience people
People do not choose Dropbox because it has this much space or gigabytes. They choose it for the experience.
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One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.
billion
Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That's, like, two billion people.
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No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.