Drew Houston

Drew Houston

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Drew Houston American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox.

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Lenny Rachitsky & Drew Houston 09 Jan 2025 • EN

Behind the founder: Drew Houston (Dropbox)

Drew Houston is the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Under his leadership, Dropbox has grown from a simple idea to a service used by over 700 million registered users globally, with a valuation exceeding $9 billion. Drew has led Dropbox through multiple phases, from explosive viral growth, to battling all the tech giants

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By now, the story is legend. When Drew Houston boarded a bus from Boston to New York and discovered that he had—yet again—forgotten to bring his thumb drive, he was frustrated. So frustrated that he sat down and began writing the first lines of code of what would eventually become Dropbox. After over a decade of changi

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Drew Houston has now been CEO of Dropbox for over 17 years. In my latest conversation, he opens up about the pivotal leadership lessons he's learned, the mistakes that shaped the company, and the true challenges of going head-to-head with big tech. We also dive into the highs and lows of fundraising, how valuations can

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Nilay Patel & Drew Houston 15 Apr 2024 • EN

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wants you to embrace AI and remote work

At the absolute most basic, Dropbox is cloud storage for your stuff — but that puts it at the nexus of a huge number of today’s biggest challenges in tech. As the company that helps you organize your stuff in the cloud itself goes all remote, how do we even deal with the concept of “your stuff?” Today I’m talking with

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Block CFO Amrita Ahuja discusses the company’s earnings, cash app growth, and how worked it with regulators about the issues raised in a short seller report around its verification and compliance programs. Plus, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says AI played a role when it cut 16% of its workforce last week, but warns that “r

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Mallika Kapur & Drew Houston 24 Nov 2022 • EN

Dropbox CEO: On Work, Guitars and Steve Jobs

Dropbox is best-known for its service that lets consumers easily sync files between computers. At least, that's how began 15 years ago. Today, it's a publicly-traded company worth more than $8 billion at the time of recording, with consumers and enterprise clients paying for cloud-storage in quantities that makes it on

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