Drew Houston’s first job was babysitting and he was not making much money, but then he figured out that he could get paid more doing what he loved.. Game programming.
He later started DropBox. He had many setbacks, and he had to face the demons in his head.
He overcame all this and finally took Dropbox Public.
Both he and his co-founder became billionaires.
What you could learn from this episode:
- What did he do when his first company was failing and was experiencing burnout.
- The most important thing for an idea to become successful.
- Why Dropbox succeeded when others before had tried and didn’t succeed.
- How he managed his mind, when he self-sabotaged himself.
- What mental frameworks he used , when he was terrified that he would not be able to manage Dropbox.
