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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 In the last five years, what new belief, behaviour, or habit has most improved your life? Daily life read 19 other answers →
That night, I realized there are no warmups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Every day we're writing a few more words of a story. And when you die, it's not like “here lies Drew, he came in 174th place.” So from then on, I stopped trying to make my life perfect, and instead tried to make it interesting. I wanted my story to be an adventure — and that's made all the difference.
Recorded MIT 147th Commencement, MIT News (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 7 June 2013 source ↗

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