He Turned Down Steve Jobs’ Magnificent Offer, And Today He Is A Billionaire. The Story Of Drew Houston, The Founder Of Dropbox.

Nico Nobili
Inspirational Technology
5 min readOct 7, 2021

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Today, Drew Houston’s company Dropbox has revenues of nearly $2 billion and approximately 700 million users. It’s been a long time since he took a year off from high school and started learning about the harsh realities of life.

His application for a job in a company that helps start-ups was turned down. A first low blow from life for our young Drew.

That he soon had a brilliant idea. The way he greets her teaches something basic to building successful businesses. A piece that, especially in the new world of technology, offers many ideas.

Today Dropbox is the most popular cloud file sharing service in the world. And Drew has also jumped to the national and international news these days for saying something against the trend.

In his opinion…

“The 40-hour work week in the office will become a thing of the past. The workplace will become very trivial the place where you work, and workers will be able to move wherever they are more comfortable to work.”

He is probably right, and in part it is already happening for many types of work.

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Nico Nobili
Inspirational Technology

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