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#334: Drew Houston — The Billionaire Founder of Dropbox

"Write an interesting story, not a perfect story." — Drew Houston Drew Houston (@DrewHouston) is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Since founding the company in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, Drew has led the company's growth from a simple idea to a service used by 500 million people around the world. Drew…

Apple Is the Richest Company, So Where Are the Billionaires?

Finding billionaires in Silicon Valley isn’t hard. Dropbox Inc.’s Arash Ferdowsi and Veeva Systems Inc.’s Peter Gassner have both crossed the threshold this year, and tech fortunes make up a fifth -- or about $1 trillion -- of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. But tracking down members of the three…

Dropbox: Drew Houston

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…

Vozy raises $5M in a Pre-Series A round. Plerk announces a partnership with WeWork, Ep 116

This week’s Espresso covers updates from Vozy, Plerk, Foodology, and more!Outline of this episode:[00:28] - Colombian Foodology raises $50M in funding round[01:04] - Vozy raises a $5M Pre-Series A round[01:31] - Lulo Bank receives a $200M investment from International Holding Company[02:02] - Arch …

How to Land Your First LP Ft. Paige Finn Doherty

Paige Finn Doherty is the Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures. BGV invests in preseed and seed companies in the future of work and play. She is actively investing out of our Fund II, and they've made 39 investments to date, including Aviron, Beacons.AI, Aidaly, Pallet, and more. They're bac…

Dropbox ft. Drew Houston - How the Cloud Pioneer Reinvented Itself

A scrappy upstart taking on hyperscalers in a category with lots of hand-wavers, Dropbox became the canonical example of Silicon Valley viral growth, adding 50 million users in the first years following their 2008 launch and quickly dominating their category. However, as CEO Drew Houston explains, …

Behind the founder: Drew Houston (Dropbox)

Drew Houston is the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Under his leadership, Dropbox has grown from a simple idea to a service used by over 700 million registered users globally, with a valuation exceeding $9 billion. Drew has led Dropbox through multiple phases, from explosive viral growth, to battlin…

The "Bus Ride" That Established A $10 Billion Company (Dropbox Story)

✎ Get free access to our vault of PDF summaries for every YouTube video here: https://believe.evancarmichael.com/the-vault ✎ Check out my NEWEST video: https://goo.gl/E0eE6m ✎ Drew Houston was just a student at MIT when a simple mistake changed his life forever. While riding a bus from Boston to …

$2B Allergy Drug, ChatGPT Ads, Mansion Section | Billy Boman, Benjamin Miller, Faris Sbahi, Evan Loomis, Anvisha Pai, Ryan Tseng

Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com (01:53) - Novartis to Buy Excellergy for $2B (11:04) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (24:08) - Anthropic Stories (33:06) - Mansion Section (54:23) - Billy Boman, an AI visual creator and educator, discusses his journey from a creative upbringing…