How Dropbox Beat Big Tech in the Cloud Wars

How do you win when your competitors are the biggest companies in the world?

This week on Grit, Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston retraces the path from a bus-stop prototype to competing head-on with Google, Apple, and Microsoft.

He explains why grit is “learning to run toward discomfort,” and the moments he realized founders keep going “for the love of the game.”

Guest: Drew Houston, Co-Founder & CEO of Dropbox

Chapters:

00:00 Trailer00:52 Introduction01:35 Towards full autonomy16:20 Coming back to school21:45 Golden ticket to California25:23 No one’s born a CEO28:15 Y Combinator and a co-founder37:53 The craft of being a great CEO53:41 Metabolizing the stress1:10:14 Tactical advices and frameworks1:27:48 Who Dropbox is hiring1:29:35 What “grit” means to Drew1:32:10 Outro

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