Houston was also named among the top 30 under-30 entrepreneurs by inc.com, and Dropbox has been called one of the 20 best startups of Silicon Valley. Houston was named one of the 'most promising players aged 30 and under' by Business Week, and Dropbox has been touted as Y Combinator's most successful investment to date. In February 2020, Houston joined the board of directors of Facebook, replacing Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who left in May 2019. Houston currently is CEO and 25% owner of Dropbox. Houston and Ferdowsi co-founded Dropbox in 2007. It was there that he met Arash Ferdowsi who would later go on to be co-founder and CTO of Dropbox.ĭuring his time in college, Houston co-founded a SAT prep company. He later graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He attended Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in the 1990s. Houston was born in Acton, Massachusetts in 1983. Houston held 24.4 percent voting power in Dropbox before filing for IPO in February 2018. According to Forbes, his net worth is about $2.2 billion.

t ən/ born March 4, 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service.

Ceo of drop box