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Drew Houston Biography

Andrew W. "Drew" Houston (pronounced "HOUS-ton"; born March 4, 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur who is best known for being the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service. According to Forbes magazine, his net worth is ~$3 billion. Drew held 24.4 percent voting power in Dropbox before filing for IPO on 23rd February 2018.

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Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them.

Anywhere, Circle, Circles, Hero, Hollywood, Inspirational

Even if it doesn't work out, the experience is so valuable to so many employers that your worst case scenario is, 'Ok, so that was a bust, I'll get a six-figure job at whatever company. ' Risk is this outmoded idea - your parents might not understand that, but taking these types of risks doesn't have a downside.

Ideas, Jobs, Outmoded, Risks, Scenario, Worst Case Scenario

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.

Clock, Great Men, Money, Possible, Want

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

Business, Failure, Inspirational, Motivational, Right, Worry

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

Book, Guitar, Guitarist, Reading, Thinking

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

Dream, Planning, Ready, Spend, Study, Studying

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.

Entrepreneur, People, Reason, Think, Thinking, Use

You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

Doors, Ends, Probability, Problem, Website

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. '

Actually, Cards, Eventually, Founder, Inspirational, Needs

When you’re in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you’re not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you’re not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn’t failing; it’s getting too comfortable.

Comfortable, Mistake, Rails, Real, School, World

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.

Business, Communicates, Creating, Magazine, Make, Zuckerberg

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.

Assets, Everything, Inspirational, Know, People, Things

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.

Areas, Differences, Different, Making A Difference, Play, Upside

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.

Broken, Can Do, Everyone, Focus, Whats

The only way to learn on a zero dollar budget is to talk to people

Budget, Dollar, Dollars, Learn, People, Zero

Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.

Important, Inspirational, Inspiring, People, Surrounding

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.

Car, Data, Fabric, Mean, Smarter

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

Fast, Ifs, Learn, Start, Thing, Wrong

You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

Average, Five, Growth, Hang, People

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Adventure, Giving, Inspirational, Instead, Life, Make