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Drew Houston and Dropbox
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- 0:00Drew Houston turned down Steve Jobs.
- 0:02Jobs told him Dropbox was a feature, not
- 0:04a product, and that Apple would go after
- 0:06his market. Meet Drew Houston. In 2007,
- 0:09he forgot his USB stick on a bus trip
- 0:11and started coding a fix. [music] With
- 0:13Arash Ferdowsi, he built Dropbox at Y
- 0:16Combinator. Drop a file in one folder,
- 0:18it's on every device. Free to start,
- 0:20paid for more space. In December 2009,
- 0:23Steve Jobs invited him to Cupertino and
- 0:25offered nine figures. Houston said,
- 0:27"No." That's how he told it Forbes. 18
- 0:30months later, Apple launched iCloud. In
- 0:322018, Dropbox went public and its shares
- 0:35jumped 36% on day one. Then growth
- 0:38stalled. In 2024, it cut a fifth of its
- 0:41staff. But more than 18 million people
- 0:43still pay for it. Last year, it made
- 0:45$508 million in profit. In May, Houston
- 0:48said he would hand over the CEO job.
- 0:50Jobs called it a feature. It still makes
- 0:52half a billion dollars a year in profit.
- 0:55Follow Vibe Economics for more.
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