Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward. - Drew Houston 1 Share Now -
To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction. - Drew Houston 2 Share Now -
To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction. - Drew Houston 3 Share Now -
There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn't failing, it's getting too comfortable. Every day, we're writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that's made all the difference. - Drew Houston 4 Share Now -
Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward. - Drew Houston 5 Share Now -
If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely. - Drew Houston 6 Share Now -
Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do. - Drew Houston 7 Share Now -
Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts. - Drew Houston 8 Share Now -