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

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

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 Dropbox CEO Drew Houston about those big picture ideas — and why he thinks generative AI really will be transformative for everyone eventually, even if it isn’t yet now. Links: Dropbox AI and Dash make it easier to find your files from all over the web | The Verge Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM forever | The Verge No, Dropbox's cafeteria didn't get a Michelin star | VentureBeat It's official: San Francisco's office vacancy rate just set a record | San Francisco Examiner Jeff Bezos: This is the 'smartest thing we ever did' at Amazon | CNBC Dropbox is laying off 500 people and pivoting to AI | The Verge Congress bans staff use of Microsoft's AI Copilot | Axios Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23892647 Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for today's show comes from Deloitte.
0:04.0	If your company is like most, your future depends in part on technology.
0:09.0	Yes, that means choosing the right technology and adopting it quickly.
0:13.0	But that isn't enough.
0:15.0	To gain advantage, your technology needs to be as outcome focused as you.
0:20.0	That means helping your people be more efficient and more inventive,
0:24.1	reducing cost and creating revenue streams,
0:27.6	growing your customer base and building trust.
0:31.6	Deloitte combines world-class business knowledge with a full
0:34.6	command of technology to help clients do more than choose cloud or adopt AI. They
0:40.2	help them create advantage from it.
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1:31.5	Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neely Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems.
1:38.0	Today I'm talking to Dropbox CEO Drew Houston.
1:41.0	Drew co-founded Dropbox way back in 2007 and he's among the last of the founder
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