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.
inspirational people important
Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.
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.
inspirational hero circles
Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for 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.
inspirational fun hard-work
The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.
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
inspirational people assets
A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
inspirational needs cards
You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'