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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Principles
27 people recommendedSketched really concise and good thoughts for [how to approach life].
Also recommended by: Gary Vaynerchuk, Naval Ravikant, Eric Jorgenson, Mark Cuban, Bill Gates, Dustin Moskovitz, Howard Marks, Jack Dorsey, Kevin Systrom, Marc Benioff, Michael Bloomberg, Reed Hastings, Arianna Huffington, Ben Greenfield, Bryan Johnson, Austen Allred, Diddy, Doug Mcmillon, James Clear, Lex Fridman, Marty Cagan, Patrick Oshaughnessy, Tim Ferriss, Tom Bilyeu, Tony Robbins, Derek Sivers

The Hard Thing About Hard Things
26 people recommendedOne of the great things that [the author] wrote in [this book] is the hardest part of being a CEO is managing your psychology.
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
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 βem 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

Poor Charlie’s Almanack
15 people recommendedA great book.
Also recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Daniel Ek, John Collison, Marc Andreessen, Patrick Collison, Courtland Allen, Patrick Bet David, Ramit Sethi, Shane Parrish, Tai Lopez, Tim Ferriss, Derek Sivers

High Output Management
13 people recommendedThe best book on management ever written.
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

Crossing the Chasm
10 people recommendedItβs [about] how do technology products make their way from early adopters to the mainstream.
Also recommended by: Changpeng Zhao, Ev Williams, Ron Conway, Aaron Levie, Andrew Ng, Bill Gurley, Chris Dixon, Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
9 people recommended[There are] engineers who [dismiss] all these things that canβt be fit into an algorithm, or that donβt have some kind of mathematical rigor underpinning them, [this book] is about that question.
Also recommended by: Ev Williams, Bryan Johnson, Austen Allred, Fred Wilson, Jordan Peterson, Josh Waitzkin, Paul Graham, Phil Jackson

Getting to Yes
7 people recommendedAbout principled negotiation, and I still think about and apply a lot of those concepts today.
Also recommended by: Dustin Moskovitz, Tim Draper, Ann Miura Ko, Charlie Munger, Nick Ganju, Tim Ferriss
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

Emotional Intelligence
4 people recommendedItβs nonfiction, but it spelled out something that I just didnβt know you could kind of break down in a logical way. And, suddenly, I had this understanding about the world that I didnβt have before.
Also recommended by: Patrick Bet David, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg

Guerilla Marketing
[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].