To check availability on Drew Houston and other top speakers and celebrities. He was also a 2010 Crunchies finalist for Top CEO and was also named Inc. Houston has been named one of the top "Twentysomething Entrepreneurs" by Businessweek.
The two of them then began working on the project that would eventually become Dropbox. He began writing a solution to this problem in early 2007 before demo-ing an early version to Arash Ferdowsi in Boston. He took a quick leave from school to form Accolade, an online SAT prep startup, and also worked as a software engineer for Bit9.Īfter graduating from MIT, Houston recognized that people needed a way to bring their files with them without sending email attachments or carrying USB drives. Houston leads all of Dropbox's activities, and is actively involved in its business and product decisions.īefore founding Dropbox, Houston attended MIT's Course 6 (Computer Science). Facebook’s independent lead director Sue Desmond-Hellman left the board in October, while Erskine Bowles, president emeritus of the University of North Carolina, and Reed Hastings, who is CEO of Netflix Inc., have also left in the last year.Drew Houston is CEO and co-founder of Dropbox, and has led Dropbox's growth from a simple idea to a service relied upon by millions around the world. Houston becomes the eighth member of Facebook’s board, which has seen a number of high-profile departures over the past year. “He thinks deeply about where technology is going and how to build a culture that delivers services that always work well.”įor his part, Houston said he’s looking forward to working with Zuckerberg and the rest of the board and that he sees “many opportunities and challenges ahead.” “Drew brings valuable perspective to our board as a leader of a technology company with services used by millions of people and businesses,” Zuckerberg said in a statement. Even so, Zuckerberg has a controlling ownership stake in Facebook thanks to its dual-class stock structure, which means he still has the final say on pretty much anything of importance. Houston (pictured), who is said to be a close personal friend of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, co-founded Dropbox in 2007 alongside his fellow MIT student Arash Ferdowsi.Īs a member of Facebook’s board of directors, he’ll be tasked with advising Zuckerberg on a variety of matters. Chief Executive Officer Drew Houston to its board of directors. today announced it has appointed Dropbox Inc.
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