If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started. Drew Houston More Quotes by Drew Houston More Quotes From Drew Houston A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible. Drew Houston assets inspirational people We've had customers from the beginning. The reason people use Dropbox is because they really love it. We think more about who is going to be competing with what we are going to be doing, not with where we started. Drew Houston entrepreneur people thinking Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how farming works, all these things that aren't technical are being turned upside down by software. So being able to play in that universe really makes a difference. Drew Houston making-a-difference differences play One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty. Drew Houston optimism tolerance entrepreneur You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible. Drew Houston great-men clock want I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass. Drew Houston matter long thinking The only way to learn on a zero dollar budget is to talk to people Drew Houston dollars zero people 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 casual chocolate space rain What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best. Drew Houston best me work time Dropbox is my life. Drew Houston my-life life You think about who needs Dropbox, and it's just about anybody with a pulse. Drew Houston just who think you 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 go you space moon People do not choose Dropbox because it has this much space or gigabytes. They choose it for the experience. Drew Houston choose experience space people With something like Dropbox, it was immediately like, 'Wow, this is literally something that anyone with an Internet connection could use.' Everyone needs something like this; they just don't realize it yet. Drew Houston everyone realize something internet People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand. Drew Houston yourself you magic people Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research. Drew Houston research football world school Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That's, like, two billion people. Drew Houston phone like two people When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way. Drew Houston eyes me dog love Where you live matters. Whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle, too - follow them. If the real action is happening somewhere else, move. Drew Houston me you learning people One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn. Drew Houston place great you people
