
Drew Houston
@drewhouston
Founder/CEO of Dropbox · Board of directors at Meta
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http://www.dropbox.com 26-03-2008 12:47:33
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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



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


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

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

Happy customer -- congrats johnhering Peter Attia on Biograph launch!


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

