![]() “It’s a working model we’ve been able to build a few years in the future, and stub our toes on problems and then design this whole portfolio. “Turning Dropbox into this lab for the future of distributed work has been awesome,” he said. Trust over surveillance.” While many of Houston’s contemporaries are grumbling over employees’ intransigence-or worse, tracking their badge swipes-the Dropbox chief has been heartened by the challenge of evolving his company. “But if you trust people and treat them like adults, they’ll behave like adults. “You need a different social contract, and to let go of control,” he acknowledged. Houston also waves away the suggestion that managing a worker in Boston is any different for him than managing someone under his thumb in San Francisco. Now we have L.A., Chicago, Boston-between dozens and hundreds of people are in these areas where we never had anyone.” “We’ve gotten so many executive vice presidents that don’t live in the Bay Area who are meeting their coworkers for the first time. ![]() Remote hiring has been “a huge superpower and unlock for us,” Houston remarked. It also sends recruitment stats through the roof. “We’re trying to put practices into place that, if adopted on a wider scale, make everyone more productive and efficient.”Īs any flexibility expert can tell you, flexible work does more than just satisfy workers. “Any future-of-work strategy we chose, we wanted to ensure that employees had control over not only how they work, but where they work,” Dropbox’s chief people officer, Melanie Rosenwasser, told Fortune last year. All meetings must narrow in on the “three D’s” of discussion, debate, or decision-making, and they can be held only between noon and 4 p.m. The company also encourages flexible work hours. The key, Houston said, is that when they’re in person, employees know they’re personally deciding to opt in, rather than being yanked. Crucially, it provides that oft-referenced cultural connect and brainstorming time that pro-office zealots insist upon, without exhausting workers with a commute grind or needless hours in drab conference rooms. Houston and his team have found, in practice, a handful of two- or three-day offsites per quarter-10% of the year-works best for their people. “Where we ended up was, there’s no substitute for the in-person connection, but let’s do it in a great way, let’s let people do most stuff remotely.” Today, Dropbox doesn’t mandate any amount of in-office presence, though the company maintained the 90% remote “pencil sketch” outlined in 2021, Houston said. On the other hand, “What’s the ideal environment? A windowless conference room?” The 90/10 rule “The unlock for us was realizing we’re not going back to the office as we know it, but we also don’t want to be stuck at home on Zoom for the rest of our lives,” he said. Are your customers happy.’ If we take care of our inner scorecard, the outer scorecard will take care of itself.As tech company after tech company has reneged on its commitments to work from anywhere, Dropbox hasn’t budged. ![]() “What we can control is ‘are you building great products. “A big part of my job is helping everybody to stay focused on what I call our inner scorecard,” he says, adding that he can’t control the markets or Dropbox’s stock price. Houston has big plans for future, he is planning to expand Dropbox into selling business software to large enterprise businesses. He said, “I really admire everything that the iconic entrepreneurs did." ![]() His favourite books are by Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel and one of Silicon Valley’s iconic entrepreneurs. He started the company in 2007, he said, "we were just getting the company off the ground and coding in a little room.”Īlso Read: Unilever's to shift Norwich Colman's Mustard factory to United Kingdomĭrew is an ardent reader, he started reading and referring to business books to learn about leading a company and how he can start his own company. Houston was 20 when he planned to start the company with his MIT classmate, Arash Ferdowsi. The comapny is listed on the Nasdaq and Drew's net worth shot up to the billlions. Last week, the company sold its shares to the public. These personal devices, which accompany employees on. The dropbox offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Use of Dropbox can open the door to company data being synced (without approval) across personal devices. Drew said, "As a kid I always dreamed of having my own company.” Drew Houston, 35-year-old is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dropbox, the net value of his company is more than $12 billion.
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