Drew Houston met Dropbox co-founder Arash after posting a screencast on Hacker News in 2007. A mutual connection introduced them at MIT's Student Center, and they quickly realized they worked well together. Houston says choosing a co-founder is one of the most important decisions you'll make.
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Through a kind of an interesting chain of events, I met my co-founder Arash. I actually put up a— I put up a screencast of Dropbox on Hacker News and Arash actually saw it and it turned out— one of the other things I did on this trip out to California 5 years ago, back in March 2007, was come out to meet a bunch of the Y Combinator founders and complain how I didn't have a co-founder and it turned out I met someone who was a mutual friend of mine and Arash's and he made an introduction to us and we met up at the MIT Student Center and hung out for an hour or two and talked about MySQL and some other things and Dropbox and they were like, yeah, of course we'll like spend all of our waking hours together for the foreseeable future. So kind of like getting married on the first date, but, you know, If anything, that was just an extraordinarily lucky break that it ended up working out and we ended up having all these complementary skills and a great relationship. But I would recommend getting to know— that's not the safe way to do it, but— and that's the one probably most important decision you make is who your co-founder is.
