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American Internet entrepreneur

Andrew W. Houston (; born March 4, 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service. According to Forbes, his net worth is about $2 billion. Houston held 24.4% of voting power in Dropbox before the company filed for IPO in February 2018. He has sat on the board of Meta Platforms since February 2020.

28 books recommended

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Hard Drive80% Confidence
I know of no other collections of interviews with founders. The closest you can get is probably books about specific startups. Hard Drive, about Microsoft, is good.
It’s nonfiction, but it spelled out something that I just didn’t know you could kind of break down in a logical way. And, suddenly, I had this understanding about the world that I didn’t have before.
Guerilla Marketing80% Confidence
About how do you get attention and users for your product if you have no money The tactic of putting a video on Hacker News or creating a viral video, that was a seed that was planted by reading Guerilla Marketing.
In The Plex80% Confidence
Steven Levy's book on Google is so fascinating I have to drag myself away to work
The Facebook Effect80% Confidence

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