Andrew Houston – Family, Family Tree

Andrew “Drew” Houston is an American Founder and Entrepreneur.

Drew Houston and his MIT classmate, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox, online sharing tool. Their popular file-sharing tool hit 100 million users in late 2012.

Personal Life of Andrew Houston:

Andrew “Drew” Houston was born on 4th March 1983 in Acton, Massachusetts, USA. Drew started reading at 18 months. At 2½ years, Drew began playing games on IBM PC at home. By 8 years, he used bulletin board systems and learned how to make games, work on reverse-engineer. Drew was interested in entrepreneurship since he was 13 years – he wanted to be next Bill Gates.

Early Life of Andrew:

While in sixth grade he wished to learn how to incorporate a Company. His father, Ken took him to the town hall to talk to a clerk. Drew was a beta-testing his new computer games at 13 years when he observed there were security flaws. He e-mailed the designer, who wanted to hire him but Drew was not of working age yet. While in school, Drew learned BASIC computer language. In High School, Drew was involved in start-ups like Accolade, Bit9 and Hubspot. At 15 years, Drew worked for an industrial robotics start-up by an MIT professor. He converted Linux coding and that saved the team thousands of dollars.