Dropbox: ‘It Just Works’: A Summary
Dropbox was founded by Drew Houston, at the age of 24. As everyone knows, it is a downloadable application that allows users to sync their local files to the cloud and other devices in a relaxed and straightforward manner.
Dropbox overall had an excellent track record, and one of the typical Silicon Valley stories. Therefore studying it should give insights about most successful startups.
Drew Houston
Houston started coding at a very early age; he even ended up scoring professional software work as early as 14 years old as a security tester for an online game. During his study at MIT, he co-founded a profitable startup called Accolade, which was an online SAT prep service.
Upon graduation, after spending some time in an enterprise company, he came up with the idea for Dropbox in December 2006.
Launching Dropbox
According to Houston, one of the main motivations of starting to develop Dropbox was his frustration with the way existing products tried to solve the problem of backing up data and sharing it with multiple devices.
Although that story sounds heartwarming, one should note that his desire to build Dropbox coincides with the hype that got built around backup and storage services in 2007. Most successful…
