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This Is Drew Houston's 2007 Y Combinator Application For A Company That's Now Worth $4 Billion, Dropbox
Y Combinator Funding Application Summer 2007 Application deadline: 12 midnight (PST) April 2, 200…
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Dropbox announced it is laying off 315 employees, or 11% of the total workforce
CEO Drew Houston called the decision one of the toughest he's had to make in 14 years as CEO: "To e…
Allana Akhtar
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Steve Jobs Once Vowed to Kill Dropbox - He Failed And Now It's Worth $8 Billion
Jobs struck Houston as a straight talker. He told him he returned to Apple because he was frustrate…
Jim Edwards
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Mailbox Reportedly Cost Dropbox $100 Million
So $100 million is just 2 percent of Dropbox's total value. That doesn't seem like a huge price to …
Owen Thomas
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Dropbox's billionaire founder Drew Houston says the 40-hour office week is a thing of the past and the pandemic has changed work forever
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston told CNN that certain workers could escape the "grueling commutes" of the …
Stephen Jones
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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston made $110 million in 2017 - and is on track to be Silicon Valley's newest billionaire after the IPO
In addition to the restricted stock grant, Houston also owns 127 million shares of Dropbox's Class …
Matt Weinberger,Rob Price
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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston heard going public was 'finding a way to live in hell without dying' - but after the IPO, he's seeing the light
At the time of the comment, Houston was just one week out from the investor roadshow that would ult…
Becky Peterson
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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says these types of people will be the ones to benefit from AI
At the MIT AI conference on Saturday, Drew Houston gave his two cents on who will benefit the most …
Lakshmi Varanasi
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Mark Zuckerberg's friend, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, is joining Facebook's board of directors
Houston and Zuckerberg have a long-running and well-documented friendship: A 2015 Fast Company prof…
Rob Price
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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston explains why he cut a bunch of perks and told employees to save more
Dropbox's cost-cutting measures drew a lot of attention because it's one of the most richly valued …
Eugene Kim
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The CEO of Dropbox explains the one thing that's worse than having your startup fail: becoming a 'zombie startup'
In a conversation with Business Insider's editor-in-chief, Alyson Shontell, and Y Combinator's Paul…
Zoë Bernard
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The Founder Of $10 Billion Dropbox Was Initially Rejected From Y Combinator For Having A Terrible Startup Idea
Drew Houston attended MIT and wanted to get into one of the most prestigious startup accelerator pr…
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Condoleezza Rice, Meg Whitman, Drew Houston, and everybody else who's poised to get richer from the Dropbox IPO
Besides Rice and Whitman, Dropbox board members include Donald W. Blair, director of the material s…
Becky Peterson
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Learn from Y Combinator's Paul Graham and Dropbox's Drew Houston as they take the stage together at IGNITION 2018
Paul Graham is a prolific investor and entrepreneur who cofounded the world's most influential star…
Meredith Guetig
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Dropbox Could Beat Box To An IPO This Year
In September, Dropbox signed on former Demand Media CFO Charles Hilliard as an advisor. Hilliard pr…
Owen Thomas
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Here's how Dropbox billionaire Drew Houston hacked viral marketing and user retention to launch a $4 billion company
Twelve years ago, success wasn't guaranteed. After being accepted to the famous Silicon Valley acce…
Sherin Shibu
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REVEALED: All The Guest Lists For Silicon Valley's Secret CEO Power Dinners
Tolia is a veteran networker, having cofounded a less hoity-toity business-networking group, Round …
Owen Thomas
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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston sees a big change coming to business software
Even Slack, the hot-shot business communication app, has created a new machine learning team recent…
Eugene Kim
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Dropbox's CEO pranked an audience by pretending they had all been given an iPad Pro for free
After talking about Apple's recent success in enterprise, Cue moved on to showing off the iPad Pro.…
Max Slater-Robins
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Dropbox's CEO credits his success to a habit he's passed on to his executive team
It worked so effectively that he decided to bring the habit to his leadership team at Dropbox. Now,…