Name
Drew Houston
Drew Houston
San Francisco, California
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Dropbox
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cloud storage service, Self Made
$2,300,000,000
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#1008 Billionaires 2019
#302 Forbes 400 2018
Drew Houston is the CEO of Dropbox, a file sharing service that has more than 500 million users.Houston cofounded the company in 2007, when he was 24, with MIT classmate Arash Ferdowsi.The cloud storage provider went public in March 2018, with shares jumping more than 35% on its first day.Houston, who owns 25% of the company, is Dropbox's largest individual shareholder.
He worked at a industrial robotics startup when he was 15.Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former HP CEO Meg Whitman serve as Dropbox board members.
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