Dropbox: Drew Houston In 2006, Drew Houston got on a bus from Boston heading to New York. He planned to use the three-hour ride to get some work done, so he opened his laptop, and realized he had left his thumb drive with all of his work files at home. Drew decided he never wanted to have that problem again. On that bus ride, he started writing the code to build a cloud-based file storage and sharing service he called Dropbox. Fourteen years later, Drew and his co-founder, Arash Ferdowsi, have built Dropbox into a public company worth close to $8 billion.

Order the How I Built This book at: https://smarturl.it/HowIBuiltThis

Special Series

How I Built This

For all new episodes, go to the How I Built This page on Wondery.com

Dropbox: Drew Houston

November 9, 202012:01 AM ET

Dropbox: Drew Houston

Listen · 49:54 49:54

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/932199300/932487959" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Enlarge this image

Drew Houston, Co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Chelsea Beck for NPR hide caption

toggle caption

Chelsea Beck for NPR

Drew Houston, Co-founder and CEO of Dropbox.

Chelsea Beck for NPR

How I Built This with Guy Raz

In 2006, Drew Houston got on a bus from Boston heading to New York. He planned to use the three-hour ride to get some work done, so he opened his laptop, and realized he had left his thumb drive with all of his work files at home.

Drew decided he never wanted to have that problem again. On that bus ride, he started writing the code to build a cloud-based file storage and sharing service he called Dropbox.

Fourteen years later, Drew and his co-founder, Arash Ferdowsi, have built Dropbox into a public company worth close to $8 billion.

Click Here to order the 'How I Built This' book

Special Series

How I Built This

For all new episodes, go to the How I Built This page on Wondery.com