Drew, welcome and thanks for doing this interview with me.

In this interview you’re going to hear the biography of Dropbox, where the idea came from, how he built it up, why it’s such a frickin’ hit. By accessing any information beyond this page, you agree to abide by the Privacy Policy, Code of Conduct, and Terms and Conditions. Drew Houston is the cofounder of Dropbox, which offers free cloud- bases file syncing from almost any mobile device or computer. No portion of may be duplicated, redistributed or manipulated in any form. And so, we updated the mission to designing a more enlightened way of working – what starts with realizing and having awareness about all the ways that we could be doing better.Copyright © 2023 Houston Texans. On adapting the company’s mission: “Our mission at the beginning might have been to get people’s life into the cloud, but in 2015 that’s kind of not the problem anymore. And when I say systematic about it, I mean, trying to get a sense of where I am in the path and sort of start with the end in mind and work back.…I like to ask myself, okay, a year from now, two years from now, five years from now, what will I wish I had been learning today?” I have to be responsible for my own growth and it’s really helped me to try to be systematic about it. Dropboxs CEO, Drew Houston, has 94 employee ratings and a score of 73/100, placing them in the Top 25 of similar size companies on Comparably with. 1 Houston held 24.4 percent voting power in Dropbox before filing for IPO in February 2018. According to Forbes, his net worth is about 2.2 billion. On evolving as a leader: “The way I think about it is, how do you keep your personal growth curve ahead of the company’s growth curve? And one thing that was surprising to me was … we got funding …and it kind of shocking how much you’re just kind of left to just figure it out for yourself.…And so, for me, realizing that, okay, no one is going to train me. Houston ( / has.tn / born March 4, 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service.

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