Drew Houston

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Drew Houston is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf business executive
entrepreneur
human
appearedIn technology conferences and startup events
associatedWith Y Combinator startup community
basedIn San Francisco Bay Area
birthYear 1983
boardMemberOf Facebook, Inc.
Meta Platforms, Inc.
businessSector consumer internet
enterprise software
coFounded Dropbox
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1983-03-04
educatedAt Massachusetts Institute of Technology
entrepreneurialActivity building and scaling Dropbox from startup to large technology company
fieldOfStudy computer science
founded Dropbox, Inc.
fullName Andrew W. Houston
gender male
givenName Andrew
hasEmployer Dropbox, Inc.
hasRole public company CEO
technology founder
industry cloud computing
software-as-a-service
technology
knownFor co-founding Dropbox
serving as CEO of Dropbox
memberOf Phi Delta Theta fraternity at MIT
nationality American
nickname Drew
notableAchievement led Dropbox to become a widely used cloud storage service
notableFor popularizing consumer cloud storage solutions
occupation businessperson
entrepreneur
software engineer
placeOfBirth Acton, Massachusetts, United States
positionHeld Chief Executive Officer of Dropbox
residence San Francisco, California, United States
speaksLanguage English
startupEcosystemRole Silicon Valley entrepreneur

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Dropbox
Dropbox
founder
Arash Ferdowsi
hasCoFounder
DBX
underlyingCompanyFoundedBy

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