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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wants you to embrace AI and remote work

There’s no “go back to 2019 button.”

But as Drew looked to the future, he decided to make a big bet on AI and turn Dropbox’s platform-agnostic approach into something that helps people stay organized across devices and browsers. The thing you described where you’re competing against OneDrive or Google Drive, even I imagine, to some extent, the iCloud features, there’s a very famous story from the beginning of Dropbox where Steve Jobs tried to acquire the company. But to see Steve onstage in 2011 at WWDC launch an iCloud, calling us out by name, that was just the beginning of a whole competitive period where we’re drafted up to the big leagues and fighting with not just Apple but Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and then a raft of other companies in our space.

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