Drew Houston

CEO, Dropbox

$1.93B

as of 10/04/24

About Drew Houston

Drew Houston is the CEO of Dropbox, a file storage and sharing service that has more than 700 million users.

Houston cofounded the company in 2007, when he was 24, with MIT classmate Arash Ferdowsi.

The cloud storage provider went public in 2018, with shares jumping more than 35% on its first day.

Houston, who owns more than 20% of the company, is Dropbox's largest individual shareholder.

Houston joined Meta's board of directors in 2020.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Cloud storage service

Residence

San Francisco, California

Marital status

Single

Birth date

03/04/83 (age 41)

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Self-made

self-made

Drew Houston’s fortune is worth

32K

troy ounces of gold

30K

median U.S. household

19K

median U.S. income

0.039%

U.S. credit card volume

0.008%

GDP of the United States

0.006%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Houston worked at an industrial robotics startup when he was 15.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NASDAQ | DBX-US

Dropbox, Inc.

NASDAQ | META-US

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