Drew Houston

There’s this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it’s done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.

Drew Houston

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.’

Drew Houston

You think about who needs Dropbox, and it’s just about anybody with a pulse.

Drew Houston

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.

Drew Houston

Dropbox is my life.

Drew Houston

Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That’s, like, two billion people.

Drew Houston

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.

Drew Houston

Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches – I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments’ results. They were raving about how it’s driving their research.

Drew Houston

People do not choose Dropbox because it has this much space or gigabytes. They choose it for the experience.

Drew Houston

People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, ‘Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?’ Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.

Drew Houston