Drew Houston : How to Build the Future

Drew is the founder and CEO of Dropbox.
Rejected once before, Drew eventually went through Y Combinator in the Winter of 2007 with Dropbox and has since grown it to over 500 million users today.
Access podcast and transcript versions of this interview here:
www.ycombinator.com/future/drew/

[@pratikkhedikar6759]

one thing to really commend is the quality of questions that sam asks and that they are on the spot. This is super rare for any interviewer. Even though Sam doesnt have that interview personality, his good questions and questions whose answers are actionable, are really really good !!

[@YourCustomersShoes]

This was really interesting. I really enjoyed hearing Drew talk about how he is constantly aware, learning and evolving. Thanks for posting.

[@jmitesh01]

Healthy paranoia, 1 year, 2 year and 5 year what would I need to know. Gaining wisdom very quickly: reading and having friends ahead of you to answer future questions. Learning about history of companies and other domains like sports and government. Talking to expert helps us to internalize it and not just reading.

[@blanket1309]

Very level headed and humble approach.

[@chuhaoliu5050]

I appreciate that Drew is very honest and frank about his answers. Thanks for uploading!

[@stevenfinch2547]

Sam’s face at certain points is crazy!

[@Themanvrg]

The guy asking the questions is blown out of his mind lol 😂

[@woosikkim5646]

Thank you! You are the best!! Andrew Houston❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮😮😮😮😊

[@margaretcezar1109]

Thanks Sam and Eric. This is very helpful. We got to have a thick skin eventhough is it very difficult. ☹️

[@Sh0SUPERMAN]

He seems like a great human and a real startup founder, unlike the questionable personalities of other tech startups

[@user-fe7vu6wb9y]

what is yc

[@official7371]

He truly built the future at the expense of his broad forehead...kudos to the Dropbox founder.

[@jeremyh9841]

he looks like musk

[@vernonhd1984]

Dropbox is the worst kind of evil. If someone buys space and shares with you, you also need to buy the space. It's like I rent a house and ask you over to watch a movie, and the landlord charges you for a months rent to come over. Brutal. God I hate them.

[@adamlee9347]

Yeah eventually I don't see their company expanding really

[@HashimAziz1]

Lol what

[@HashimAziz1]

I don't feel this guy and Dropbox get the credit they deserve, they essentially invented the cloud business model before the likes of iCloud, AWS and GCP

[@24grams]

This Sam Altman guy has gotten much more popular since 2017, hasn't he?

[@HashimAziz1]

@@24grams He's the founder of OpenAI, which in the last few years has created DALL-E, GPT-3 and ChatGPT, among others.

[@romanerrandonea7791]

Hello, I am the CEO of Elexion, an information brokerage platform. We are engaging with people in Silicon Valley to learn about emerging issues in communicating this information to Latin American entrepreneurs! If you are a citizen We would like to know the problems that are occurring. Write us....

[@Kanibulus]

Hello CEO of Elexion, we need money 💰 please consider donating

[@jeyg4561]

Let's start with the hairline

[@confidentguy1727]

Haha