Drew Houston (@drewhouston) 's Twitter Profile
Drew Houston

@drewhouston

Founder/CEO of Dropbox · Board of directors at Meta

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It was so clear to me that Hiten Shah and the Nira crew were onto something big and I’m so happy that stars aligned for us to finally work together. One of the hardest things was keeping my mouth shut about it 😊 Glad we can finally pull back the curtain! Nira is a cornerstone of

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I also want to thank Ben Standefer and Tom Uebel, the founders of Command-E, and the original team for joining Dropbox and everything you all have done in helping us get Dash to where it is today. You guys bet on this space earlier than anyone and I’m so proud of what we’ve been

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Thanks @fanahova and swyx for having me on Latent.Space and at the AI Pioneers Summit. Fun to go deep on AI engineering, designing Dash for Business, building the silicon brain, and a lot more — was a great discussion!

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Last Tuesday, October 15th, Dropbox announced it acquired Nira, the company I co-founded four years ago.  The next day, I was on stage at the AI Pioneers Summit with Drew Houston and Jon Sakoda. Talk about a packed 48 hours. Our journey at nira.com began with a vision to

Last Tuesday, October 15th, Dropbox announced it acquired Nira, the company I co-founded four years ago. 

The next day, I was on stage at the AI Pioneers Summit with <a href="/drewhouston/">Drew Houston</a> and <a href="/jonsakoda/">Jon Sakoda</a>.

Talk about a packed 48 hours.

Our journey at <a href="/niradotcom/">nira.com</a> began with a vision to
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Always great speaking with you Lenny Rachitsky — had a lot of fun looking back on my most important lessons from building Dropbox over the last 18 years (!) No one teaches you how to be a founder/CEO, but I've found there's a lot you can do to compete with the giants, stay ahead of the

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Thanks Roelof Botha and @Sequoia for having me and for believing in Dropbox from the beginning! Really fun to share the inside story of so many pivotal moments with arash ferdowsi bryan schreier @sujayjaswa — from that early viral video to Magic Pocket to everything we're building today

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My (perhaps questionable) strategy for getting into Y Combinator: 1) Post a Dropbox demo on Hacker News 2) Pray Paul Graham Jessica Livingston see it. It actually worked. The video hit #1 on HN for two days (!), and a couple months later, we were part of the Summer 2007 batch. From

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Had a great time with @Jasonlk at @Saastr 2025 discussing our product evolution and why I’m excited about Dropbox's next act with Dash!

Had a great time with @Jasonlk at @Saastr 2025 discussing our product evolution and why I’m excited about <a href="/Dropbox/">Dropbox</a>'s next act with Dash!
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Using Cursor + Sonnet 4 really feels like the flip in Factorio from no bots to bots. Last abstraction leap that felt like this was going from C/C++ to Python/Lisp