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Dropbox founding story - with Drew Houston

THE INSIDE STORY OF TECH'S HOTTEST STARTUP – DROPBOX Growing up in suburban Boston, he began tinkering at the age 5 with an IBM PC junior Rejected buying offer from Steve Jobs, saying Signed up to beta test an online game, and rooting out security flaws he wanted to buid a ig ST company DREW HOUSTON'S By freshman year at MIT he spent most of time in reading business books Found a co-founder Arash DROPBOX Ferdowsi, who dropped out MIT to start Dropbox FOUNDING STORY Created an automated Flew to San Francisco to pitch his idea to Paul Graham of incubator Y Combinator gambling "Bot", a computer program to play online poker and failed Idea for Dropbox was born, when he forgot his USB memory stick, leaving him with a laptop and no code to work In 2010, Drew Houston was called the best young tech entrepreneur by Business week As of 2015, Dropbox was responsible for 0.29% of all worldwide internet traffic Corporate Valley Based on the story published in http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbox-the-inside-story-of-techs-hottest-startup/ | Design by http://www.freepik.com

Dropbox founding story - with Drew Houston

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Dropbox founding story - with Drew Houston. The inside story of tech's hottest startup. An infographic based on the story published in http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbox-the...

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