Drew Houston Quotes

Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That's, like, two billion people.

You think about who needs Dropbox, and it's just about anybody with a pulse.

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

People do not choose Dropbox because it has this much space or gigabytes. They choose it for the experience.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

The team was unbelievable, and Dropbox was a really easy, simple-to-use product. Both Aditya and I believe this is the technology company we want to be working at now, and it has the potential to be the next big technology company.

Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology is huge. The amount of work it requires to store, scale and move this data is pretty intense.

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I'd asked for software recommendations via Twitter and Facebook. For seemingly every function, the answer was 'Man, you have to use Evernote.'

Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them.

The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'

Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud.

It's a world where you're going to have a phone, a tablet, a computer - you don't have to choose. And so what's more important is how you seamlessly move between them all... It's not like this is a laptop person and that's a tablet person. It doesn't have to be that way.

There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us.

People don’t know what they want until they see it.

Piracy was kind of hard: It took a few minutes to download a song. It was kind of cumbersome. You had to worry about viruses. It's not like people want to be pirates. They just want a great experience.

The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load.

We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.

Not every time you open Messenger do you want an Uber, but when you do want an Uber, it appears. That is the goal.

We fully recognized that our customers have a variety of devices. They're carrying all sorts of things. And we want to bring our world-class apps to those devices.

Sure, Google's and Apple's ecosystems look a little different, but they are meant to do pretty much the same thing. For the two companies, innovation on mobile essentially means catching up to the other's growing list of features.

Acompli is just a great example of a fabulous app.