Drew Houston

“Oh, thank you, Lenny. It's great to be here.”

“Me too, and I've been a big fan of the podcast.”

“My playbook as an entrepreneur is to get really frustrated by something, and then try to solve that personally. I'll cover the team, and what direction we ended up choosing together. My first frustrat...”

“First of all problem, no complaints. But I'm like, "This is so weird. Yeah, I'm making huge strategic mistakes, because I'm too busy firing the aim, and I'm upset at myself about a lot of these things...”

“I'm like, "This is bizarre. Who's winning here?" It's like if I was working hard, and the company is benefiting, then no problem. But I'm very busy, but I'm not really productive. I'm not putting in a...”

“Okay, first, it's just getting out of this delusional state where you think you're great, just splashing cold water on everyone, and be like, "Look, we haven't shipped any. Last three years, the only ...”

“A lot of it is getting back to like, "Hey, we have to focus on craft. We have to embrace a growth mindset and learning. We have to stop blaming external factors or displacing blame. We have to be a hi...”

“But that seniority gap is really rough. Where ...”

“But this idea, Mindshare is a big resource. It's not actually how much money or economy or land or whatever or-”

“But we still got to make it fully out of the, we're on our way up, we're clawing our way back up.”

“And by the way, it will always be like that. You're never done with that. It's not like you reach the A-top or you don't have to if you don't want it.”

“I'm just Drew Houston on all the socials and then we got our new product, Dropbox Dash, dropbox.com/dash. Right now, it's for companies. We'll have a downloadable version. You could just get on your p...”