This is step one of a very long journey - in many ways, a new beginning for us.Īt first glance, the new product conforms very closely to the collaborative canvas that I mapped out a couple of years ago as the ideal framework for teamwork in the digital enterprise. It's "a big opportunity," he says, but also a new departure: I sat down with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston for an exclusive diginomica interview in the company's San Francisco headquarters earlier this week to find out more about this big step in Dropbox's evolution. Now Dropbox is taking on a much bigger challenge - helping us keep our work in sync across all the digital teams we're a part of. Drew tells Bloomberg that in the "fragmented experience" of today's digital workplace, "the most important thing is keeping a team on the same page.”įrom his early days with Arash at Y Combinator, to meeting their first investor in a rug shop, learning from mentors like Marc Benioff and Mark Zuckerberg, and growing personally as a CEO, Drew talks candidly in a Business Insider “ Success! How I Did It” podcast.Many of us are familiar with Dropbox as a convenient way of keeping files in sync across the multiple devices we use in our digital lives. Now, he says, "we want to move up the stack, move beyond storage.” Paper, the new collaboration app, is an example of this. Instead, Dropbox went on to become the fastest SaaS company to achieve $1 billion in revenue run rate and build its own infrastructure. in a “ Notes to My Younger Self” video that he was relieved Steve Jobs thought he and co-founder Arash Ferdowsi had “built a great product," but says it “would have been a pretty big financial mistake” to sell the young company to Apple in 2008. Magazine to put it all in context.ĭrew tells Inc. Following the Dropbox tenth anniverary in May, CEO Drew Houston sat down with reporters from Bloomberg Business Week, Business Insider, and Inc.
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