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Co-founding Dropbox in 2007 after forgetting a USB drive, Houston has built a $2.5 billion-revenue public company serving 700 million users — expanding it from file-syncing into a profitable collaboration suite with documents, e-signatures, and AI-powered search.
Drew Houston co-founded Dropbox in 2007 while at MIT and launched it through Y Combinator.
The cloud storage and collaboration platform serves over 700 million registered users, went public in 2018, and generates over $2.5 billion in annual revenue. Under Houston, Dropbox has expanded into Dropbox Paper, Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign), and AI-powered search, transitioning from consumer growth into profitable enterprise focus.
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