Drew Houston

Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Dropbox · 1 appearance on the record.

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Drew Houston co-founded cloud storage and collaboration platform Dropbox in 2007 through Y Combinator and led the company through hypergrowth to its 2018 public offering. He sits on the board of directors of Meta Platforms and has actively angel-invested in tech companies such as Scale AI and Gusto.

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The record, in short

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Assertion Supported

Houston: Dropbox reached 200 million published users by late 2013

“Last number we published was two hundred million.”

Drew Houston Apr 9, 2014 ▶ 1:36:48 #1001 The 1,000 interview celebration

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What they said3 Episodes1

Everything Drew Houston said on Mixergy that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Houston: Solving personal frustrations beats MBA-style market analysis for startup ideas

“Focusing on a problem that you're, that really bothers you or that you're really excited about tends to Be better than trying to do a market analysis or a more kind of, you know, traditional kind of MBA approach.”

Drew Houston Apr 9, 2014 ▶ 1:40:03 #1001 The 1,000 interview celebration

Insight

Houston: Not every startup should aim to be a billion-dollar business

“Not every business has to be a billion dollar business. I mean, there's you know, it's, bigger is not always better. And one of the things is like a lot of, you know, something like, I think there was that whole unicorn club study that said like out of maybe, …”

Drew Houston Apr 9, 2014 ▶ 1:44:51 #1001 The 1,000 interview celebration