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
almost biggest days few life practice realized words
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.
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.
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.
ifs
If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.
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.
thinking long matter
I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.
inspirational years worry
You have to adopt a mindset that says, 'Okay, in three months, I'll need to know all this stuff, and then in six months there's going to be a whole other set of things to know - again in a year, in five years.' The tools will change, the knowledge will change, the worries will change.
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.
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.
business zuckerberg creating
No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day and wanted to redefine how the world communicates [by creating] a billion-dollar company. He didn't.
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.'
zero people dollars
The only way to learn on a zero dollar budget is to talk to people