Glad to be back: Drew Houston (center), gave the speech at his Alma Mater, MIT to this years graduating class Just a few years ago, Mr Houston was named one of the most promising players aged under 30 by various business publications such as Forbes. Your circle pushes you to be better, just as Adam pushed me.' One thing I've learned is surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard. If I hadn't come here, I wouldn't have met Adam, I wouldn't have met my amazing co-founder, Arash, and there would be no Dropbox. Think about that for a minute: who would be in your circle of 5? I have some good news: MIT is one of the best places in the world to start building that circle. 'They say that you're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Great idea: The website allows users to create a special folder on each of their computers, which Dropbox then synchronizes so that it appears to be the same folder (with the same contents) regardless of which computer is used to view itĭuring his commencement speech, Mr Houston spoke of how valuable his time at MIT was in pushing him to creative Dropbox.

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