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Drew Houston

Drew Houston is a computer scientist at Dropbox Inc..[1]

Drew Houston is the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox.[2]He founded Dropbox about two years later in response to a personal technical problem.[3]He graduated from MIT in 2006, and only six years later was named to MIT Technology Review's TR35 list honoring the world's top innovators under 35.[4]He previously worked at New Enterprise Associates and Morgan Stanley.[5]His perspicacity was rewarded in late March, when the public listing of the company, which now has more than 500 million users, valued it at $12.4 billion.[6]Before founding Dropbox, Drew received his bachelors degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2006.[7]

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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston joins Facebook board

Dropbox Inc. CEO Drew Houston has joined the board of directors at Facebook, effective immediately, the social media giant said Monday. “Drew brings valuable perspective to our board as a leader of a technology company with services used by millions of people and businesses," Facebook CEO and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement. Houston becomes the eighth member of Facebook's board. Zients, the lowest-paid non-employee director, received $362,222 in 2018, while Chenault, at $462,834, was the highest-paid, according to the company's most recent disclosures on board and executive pay.[40]

02/03/2020

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US Patent Issued to Dropbox on Nov. 26 for "File sharing via link generation" (California Inventors)

10,491,653, issued on Nov. 26, was assigned to Dropbox Inc.. "File sharing via link generation" was invented by Arash Ferdowsi, Drew Houston, Jonathan Ying and Jeffrey Bartelma. The system which stores and provides access to the files accordingly creates a link that specifies the file set to be made accessible. The patent was filed on Dec. 17, 2018, under Application No. 16/222,912.[41]

11/28/2019

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$9 billion Dropbox explains why it's blowing up its product for its biggest redesign in 12 years

Dropbox just overhauled the designed of its flagship file-sharing product. "It's the biggest change we've ever made to our product," Dropbox CEO and co-founder Drew Houston said at a press event. For instance, employees tend to use an array of tools like Slack, Zoom, Atlassian, Google's G Suite, and more. This involves having to switch between windows and tabs to find files and communicate with co-workers. But with the new Dropbox, users can organize their related files in one place, whether it's PowerPoint files or Google Drive files. So workers can send Slack messages or set up Zoom meetings right from Dropbox and don't have to keep switching between different apps.[3839]

06/11/2019

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