Words matter. These are the best Drew Houston Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn’t know it wasn’t supposed to be possible.
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.
One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you’re surrounded by all these people who’ve done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.
If you’re going to go to the moon, you don’t shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.
You think about who needs Dropbox, and it’s just about anybody with a pulse.
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.
Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That’s, like, two billion people.
Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
Dropbox is my life.
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.
Reading a book about management isn’t 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.
With something like Dropbox, it was immediately like, ‘Wow, this is literally something that anyone with an Internet connection could use.’ Everyone needs something like this; they just don’t realize it yet.
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.
One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.
No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.
If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.
