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Drew Houston

Co-founder and chief executive of Dropbox

United States · b. 1983

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Co-founded the file-hosting company Dropbox in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi and has led it as chief executive since. Graduated from MIT in 2005 in computer science.

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Question What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise? Craft & work read 48 other answers →

I was going to say work on what you love, but that's not really it. It's so easy to convince yourself that you love what you're doing — who wants to admit that they don't? When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

Recorded MIT 147th Commencement, MIT News (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 7 June 2013 source ↗

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