Author: Drew Houston

Quotes

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.

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.

- 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.

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

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.

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.

- Drew Houston

Dropbox is my life.

Dropbox is my life.

- Drew Houston

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.

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.

- Drew Houston

A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

- Drew Houston

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

- Drew Houston

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