In an exclusive Forbes video interview, Dropbox cofounder and CEO Drew Houston talks shipping new features in a pandemic, the future of work and tech's place in society amid the Black Lives Matter movement by alexrkonrad
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Cofounded by Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in 2007 and a public company for the past two years, Dropbox has long looked to improve office productivity, blurring the lines of work and home, its CEO says. That’s taken on heightened importance in the age of the coronavirus, when workers around the world have, or still are, working from home full-time.
For $9 billion-market-cap Dropbox, which Houston says isn’t going back to the office itself until at least after September 1, that’s meant rethinking its products altogether. “For a lot of our customers, Dropbox is not just some folder on their desktop, it’s the place where all work happens. And we’re like, okay, that’s awesome,” Houston says. “One little issue – we never designed the product to do that.
So in what its CEO calls “the first inning of distributed work,” Dropbox has looked to “wipe the slate clean.
The goal, Houston says, is a flexible work environment future in which workers don’t have to serve as amateur archaeologists, sifting through chat and video transcripts, texts and email threads, to remember what just happened or what objective comes next. “This is going to be a permanent shift. Many of us are excited to go back to the office. Many of us are excited to maybe not have to. That’s going to be the dynamic that continues; that’s going to be a permanent shift.
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