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Drew Houston

Former Co-founder of Dropbox, Dropbox

Search every verified Drew Houston interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a 2026 interview, Drew Houston recounted the origins of Dropbox, describing how he began writing the code for the cloud-based file storage service on a bus in 2006 after forgetting his thumb drive. He noted that the company, which he co-founded with Arash Ferdowsi, later became a public company worth close to $8 billion. Houston also discussed the company's early philosophy, stating that the team knew they would not have much margin for error and that "move fast and break things" was not a viable approach, as losing users' trust would be difficult to regain. He compared the need for reliability to a pacemaker, emphasizing that the product had to be very good rather than perfect.

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