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
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.
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.
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.
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.
thinking long matter
I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.
broken focus can-do
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.
want great-men clock
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.
based basic few five instead people themselves
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.