Drew Houston.

Drew Houston is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dropbox, the cloud storage and collaboration platform used by over 700 million registered users worldwide.

Houston co-founded Dropbox in 2007 while at MIT after repeatedly forgetting his USB drive, and launched the company through Y Combinator. Dropbox went public in 2018 and generates over $2.5 billion in annual revenue. Under Houston's leadership, Dropbox has evolved from a simple file-syncing tool into a comprehensive collaboration platform including Dropbox Paper (documents), Dropbox Sign (e-signatures, formerly HelloSign), and AI-powered search and organization features. Houston has led the company through the transition from consumer growth to enterprise focus, building a profitable, cash-generating business. He is known for his disciplined approach to leadership and his essays on time management and prioritization, including his widely shared MIT commencement address about not waiting for a "tennis ball" to chase. His two-decade journey building Dropbox from a Y Combinator startup into a publicly traded cloud platform serving hundreds of millions of users demonstrates sustained entrepreneurial commitment.