What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.
From Drew Houston
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.
You think about who needs Dropbox, and it's just about anybody with a pulse.
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.
Dropbox is my life.
If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.
People do not choose Dropbox because it has this much space or gigabytes. They choose it for the experience.
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.
You only have to be right once.
No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.
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