Drew Houston was just an ordinary software engineer with bigger dreams he was determined to build his own company. He resigned from his $85,000-a-year day job and builds one of the fastest-growing companies Silicon Valley has ever seen.
Houston used his abilities on cranking codes late into the night on a new service that instantly syncs all files into different devices which gave him the idea of building a company that caught the attention of two prominent technology companies, Google and Apple.
During the early days of Dropbox, Drew Houston calculated that he needs several hundred users to “not feel like an idiot.” Drew never expected the turn of event would make him as a rock star on the internet.
The former guitarist of a ‘90’s rock cover band at Boston bars and college parties named his company first as “Even Flow” after one of his favorite Pearl Jam songs.
The company that was founded by Houston has more than 50 million users and saved 325 million files every day. The service allows people to access the latest version of all their digital stuff on any device no matter where they are.
At first Drew Houston was only dreaming of people to use his service but things definitely changed right now instead of dreaming for people to use his service, now he needs software to track how many people use his service?
Dropbox was able to figure out a solution on vexing problem and the explosions of smartphones and tablets paved the way for the company’s exponential growth. Accessing photos, music, videos, documents, spreadsheets and any other files have never been easier with Dropbox, no matter where they are.
The companies name Dropbox have been a verb as in “Dropbox me.” Houston was able to acquire funding from Silicon Valley’s top venture firms and made his company’s value to $4 Billion. Houston’s net worth was recorded at an estimated $600 million.
Dropbox dominated the service as of this time but the company faces potentially lethal competition from some of the world’s largest tech companies and start-ups. The only problem with Dropbox is when the time comes if Google, Apple and Microsoft will point directly on Dropbox.