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1. • • 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.
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   How did Drew Houston start Dropbox?

   • 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. In 2006, Drew Houston got on a bus from Boston heading to New York.

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   How did drew & Arash Ferdowsi start Dropbox?

   • 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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   Who is Dropbox CEO Drew Houston?

   • Come see Dropbox CEO Drew Houston speak at Business Insider's IGNITION conference December 3-4. Houston had his eye on tech from an early age. As he confirmed to Business Insider in an interview last year, Houston started programming when he was as young as five years old. He began working on ideas for startups when he was only a teenager.

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   How long did it take Houston to find a Dropbox cofounder?

   • Houston had less than two weeks to find a cofounder for Dropbox — and found one at MIT. Arash Ferdowski, then a student at MIT, had reached out to Houston after seeing a demo video Houston put together for Dropbox. After a conversation that lasted no more than two hours, Ferdowski agreed to drop out of MIT and work with Houston.

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   Who is Dropbox cofounder Arash Ferdowsi?

   • Arash Ferdowsi, Dropbox's cofounder, with Houston. Courtesy of Drew Houston Arash Ferdowsi, then a student at MIT, had reached out to Houston after seeing a demo video Houston put together for Dropbox. After a conversation that lasted no more than two hours, Ferdowsi agreed to drop out of MIT and work with Houston.

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   When did Dropbox start?

   • Dropbox publicly launched its service in 2008. The debut came about a year after the company got its funding from Sequoia. Dropbox took longer to launch than other startups, Houston said, "because it's a product you really have to get right." Some clever marketing tactics helped boost Dropbox early on. Dropbox files displayed on a tablet. Apple

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3. www.businessinsider.com › how-drew-houston-createdHow Drew Houston Created Dropbox and Took It Public, Landing ...

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   Oct 4, 2018 · Drew Houston turned down several prospective buyers in Dropbox's early stages, including a bid from Steve Jobs.

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4. www.forbes.com › sites › victoriabarretDropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup - Forbes

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   Oct 18, 2011 · Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple ’s radar screen when he reverse-engineered Apple’s file system so that his startup’s logo,...

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6. jobs.dropbox.com › blogs › drew-tells-the-dropboxHow I Built This: The Story of Dropbox - Jobs - Dropbox

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   Feb 17, 2021 · Drew tells the Dropbox story on How I Built This. Produced by NPR and started in 2016, "How I Built This" is a podcast about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

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   Dropbox started with just two people, and it's taken 10 years to get to the point it's at now. But Houston hung in there.

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   He founded Dropbox about two years later in response to a personal technical problem. While riding the Chinatown bus from Boston to New York, Houston realized he had left his thumb...

9. www.inc.com › 30under30 › 2011Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, Founders of Dropbox

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   Jun 27, 2011 · Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi founded file-syncing service Dropbox to stop digital chaos. See how they did it.

10. www.npr.org › 2020/11/06 › 932199300Dropbox: Drew Houston - NPR

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    Nov 9, 2020 · 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...