Drew Houston

Drew Houston

Founder and CEO of Dropbox

Drew Houston is the founder and CEO of Dropbox, the cloud storage platform that revolutionized file syncing and sharing for millions of users worldwide.

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Drew Houston founded Dropbox in 2008, growing it into one of the most valuable cloud storage companies in the world. His focus on elegant product design and user experience has made Dropbox an essential tool for individuals and businesses. Houston's leadership emphasizes the importance of emotional intelligence and strategic thinking in building lasting technology companies.

11 Books Recommended by Drew Houston

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#2

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

by Ben Horowitz

26 people recommended

One of the great things that [the author] wrote in [this book] is the hardest part of being a CEO is managing your psychology.

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Also recommended by: Ankur Warikoo, Balaji Srinivasan, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, Larry Page, Peter Thiel, Dustin Moskovitz, Marc Andreessen, Balaji S. Srinivasan, Andrew Ng, Andrew Wilkinson, Blake Scholl, Chris Dixon, Fred Wilson, Jodie Cook, Kathryn Minshew, Keith Rabois, Luis Von Ahn, Marty Cagan, Matt Mullenweg, Max Levchin, Peter Attia, Raoul Pal, Tim Ferriss, Vijay Shekhar Sharma

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18 people recommended

About how businesses get disrupted, and a lot of those themes are why startups can succeed and thrive even when there are big competitors who you would think would just wipe ’em out.

Also recommended by: Mark Cuban, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Ev Williams, Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Michael Bloomberg, Aaron Levie, Ben Horowitz, Bill Gurley, Caterina Fake, Blake Scholl, Chris Dixon, Guy Kawasaki, Max Levchin, Steve Blank, Tim Oreilly

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#5

High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove

13 people recommended

The best book on management ever written.

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Also recommended by: Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Brian Armstrong, Brian Chesky, John Doerr, Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, Tobi Lutke, Ben Horowitz, Justin Kan, Keith Rabois, Sahil Lavingia

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#6

Crossing the Chasm

by Geoffrey A. Moore

10 people recommended

It’s [about] how do technology products make their way from early adopters to the mainstream.

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Also recommended by: Changpeng Zhao, Ev Williams, Ron Conway, Aaron Levie, Andrew Ng, Bill Gurley, Chris Dixon, Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin

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#7

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M. Pirsig

9 people recommended

[There are] engineers who [dismiss] all these things that can’t be fit into an algorithm, or that don’t have some kind of mathematical rigor underpinning them, [this book] is about that question.

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Also recommended by: Ev Williams, Bryan Johnson, Austen Allred, Fred Wilson, Jordan Peterson, Josh Waitzkin, Paul Graham, Phil Jackson

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#8

Getting to Yes

by Roger Fisher

7 people recommended

About principled negotiation, and I still think about and apply a lot of those concepts today.

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Also recommended by: Dustin Moskovitz, Tim Draper, Ann Miura Ko, Charlie Munger, Nick Ganju, Tim Ferriss

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5 people recommended

I think one of the most valuable concepts from [this book] is measuring your time.

Also recommended by: Ev Williams, Guy Kawasaki, Jim Collins, Matt Mullenweg

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#10

Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

4 people recommended

It’s nonfiction, but it spelled out something that I just didn’t know you could kind of break down in a logical way. And, suddenly, I had this understanding about the world that I didn’t have before.

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Also recommended by: Patrick Bet David, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg

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#11

Guerilla Marketing

by Jay Conrad Levinson

[About] how do you get attention and users for your product if you have no money? The tactic of putting a video on Hacker News or creating a viral video, that was a seed that was planted by reading [this book].

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