Drew Houston
11 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 23, 2017 by Drew Houston · said 23 times in 9 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Pejman Nozad (7), Harj Taggar (4), Paul Buchheit (3), Tikhon Bernstam (2), Paul Graham (2), Jared Friedman (2), Juan Benet (1), Geoff Ralston (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 4 mentions in 1 episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
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Feb 23, 2017
Feb 23, 2017
Founders need thick skin for critics but thin skin for users
“I think where it gets a little harder is you have to simultaneously have thick skin and be able to tune things like that out. But you also have kind of thin skin, and if your customers are unhappy or your team's unhappy, you have to respond to that.”
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Houston: Company culture and values are the programming for human systems
“Especially if you're an engineer, you go, you're going from designing a system of code and algorithms. Which is very orderly and discreet to a system of people, and things like culture, values, all kinds of other things are the programming that makes that work…”
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Feb 23, 2017 positive
Sep 8, 2017 positive
Bernstam: Solo founders can succeed despite Silicon Valley conventions against them
“I actually like solo founders. I know that's an unconventional thing in the Valley, but Drew was initially a solo founder with Dropbox. And a lot of other great companies were as well, or had one founder who really drove the project through.”