According to an interview he wrote the first lines of code at a train station in Boston. There are also unofficial ports for Symbian and MeeGo and the overwhelming flexibility (as well as the fact that it is free) was the key to the success of the service. The program was written in Go and Python, being able to run on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, Windows Phone and all web browsers. Another project of his was Accolade, an online SAT prep startup and he worked as a software engineer, with Dropbox being his sixth startup. As Drew said: “One thing I’ve learned is surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard”, and Arash was the inspiration for one of the fastest growing companies.ĭrew Houston had several other startups after graduating such as Hubspot, Accolade or Bit9, but his main focus was to create a file hosting service. Arash would give up college in his last year to focus on his business which started in June 2007. While he was in college he met Arash Ferdowsi which would later become his co-founder and CTO (chief technology officer) at Dropbox. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at MIT and graduated in 2006 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He went to the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School during the 1990s and then attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Drew” Houston was born in Acton, Massachusetts on the 4 th of March 1983. According to his statement he was interested in computers from the age of five. The founder and CEO of Dropbox, Andrew W.
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