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Dropbox is an online storage service with more than 200 million users, including four million businesses. At Dreamforce ’13, salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff sat down with 30-year-old Dropbox CEO, Drew Houston, to discuss an array of topics, from what inspires him, to the future of mobile. Read on for Houston’s answers.
“I was taking this bus to New York. I realized I’d forgotten my thumb drive. Suddenly I’m powerless. I thought, how long are we going to be doing this? I never want this to happen to me again.”
“The problem we are solving is really hard. It took us many years to be able to build the product. You only discover these problems and how to solve them as you get more and more data on how people use it.”
“We’ve had customers from the beginning. The reason people use Dropbox is because they really love it. We think more about who is going to be competing with what we are going to be doing, not with where we started.”
“There are special people out there who have these great ideas, have conviction around them and build great teams. We pay attention to that, and then help them take these ideas to more people.”
“You look at mobile and all the amazing stuff that has happened the last few years. How we work has changed and will change even more over the next few years.”
“He was very gracious about respecting the fact that we wanted to build this company. He gave us a little bit of a hard time. Six months later we find ourselves watching one of his keynotes. He called us out by name saying he wants to kill us with iCloud. It was a good wake up call for the company to get everyone to rally around that. We saw both sides of the coin.”
“I feel really fortunate. To be back on the flip side seven or eight years after graduation was surreal. The premise for my speech: If I was to give myself a cheat sheet at age 22 knowing what I know now, what would I say?”
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