Dropbox: Drew Houston

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In 2006, Drew Houston got on a bus from Boston heading to New York. He planned to use the three-hour ride to get some work done, so he opened his laptop, and realized he had left his thumb drive with all of his work files at home. Drew decided he never wanted to have that problem again. On that bus ride, he started writing the code to build a cloud-based file storage and sharing service he called Dropbox. Fourteen years later, Drew and his co-founder, Arash Ferdowsi, have built Dropbox into a public company worth close to $8 billion.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:09.0	New years is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.
0:13.0	As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.
0:17.0	So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.
0:24.0	Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.
0:27.0	Hey, really quick before we start the show, the how I built this book is now a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
0:35.0	So thank you to all of you who ordered it and for your support of this show.
0:40.0	If you haven't picked it up and you want to learn the secrets of how to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, how I built this, the book is for you.
0:49.0	It's now available wherever books are sold and in most countries around the world.
0:54.0	Or by visiting how I built this.com or gyros.com. And thanks.
1:01.0	I'm trying to work these different leads on co-founders and then I met this kid Kyle.
1:07.0	And so Kyle's like, hey, you should talk to my friend Arash.
1:10.0	And what do you know about Arash at that point?
1:12.0	Virtually nothing.
1:14.0	Just a recommendation from somebody else who's like, hey, this guy, he might be a good co-founder.
1:19.0	Yeah. And he's a still in school, right?
1:21.0	So we get together in the student center and just start passionate out.
1:26.0	And that was what was so crazy. I was just like, you got to drop out of school to do this.
1:32.0	Yeah.
1:33.0	And I'm like, all right, I'm expecting to have to talk to the parents and do all this stuff.
1:36.0	Right. And he just bounces a couple days later. He had just dropped out of school.
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