Drew Houston

Businessman

1983-03-04

Quotes by 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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