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How Dropbox Beat Big Tech in the Cloud Wars
Manage episode 502348103 series 2662695
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 Trailer
00:52 Introduction
01:35 Towards full autonomy
16:20 Coming back to school
21:45 Golden ticket to California
25:23 No one’s born a CEO
28:15 Y Combinator and a co-founder
37:53 The craft of being a great CEO
53:41 Metabolizing the stress
1:10:14 Tactical advices and frameworks
1:27:48 Who Dropbox is hiring
1:29:35 What “grit” means to Drew
1:32:10 Outro
Links:
Connect with Drew
Connect with Joubin
- X
- Email: [email protected]
258 episodes
Manage episode 502348103 series 2662695
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 Trailer
00:52 Introduction
01:35 Towards full autonomy
16:20 Coming back to school
21:45 Golden ticket to California
25:23 No one’s born a CEO
28:15 Y Combinator and a co-founder
37:53 The craft of being a great CEO
53:41 Metabolizing the stress
1:10:14 Tactical advices and frameworks
1:27:48 Who Dropbox is hiring
1:29:35 What “grit” means to Drew
1:32:10 Outro
Links:
Connect with Drew
Connect with Joubin
- X
- Email: [email protected]
258 episodes
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