Drew Houston, Dropbox founder, argues that startup success isn't overnight. He describes cash-strapped early days and modest beginnings, then explains how learning happens systematically, one day at a time, as ambitions grow.
And I talk about some of the kind of more humble beginnings because I think there's this huge disservice, that kind of sort of Silicon Valley mythology and the things you read in magazines where it's like, from the moment he was sitting in his dorm room at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg sought to redefine the face of human communication. And Google, they were going to organize all the world's information and all these different things. And you sort of sit there and you're like, you're just trying to write code and hope it compiles, and you're like, well, I know I'm not quite like that. I'm not thinking about that. I'm thinking about, like, we have $60 left in our checking account, and I can't loan the company any more money. So anyway, the point is, in fact, Facebook, it was number project number seven or eight that Mark happened to be hacking on, and it just happened to sign up the whole Harvard campus a couple of weeks. And Google, they were rejected when they wanted to sell the company for a million dollars to Yahoo. And so the point is, all these things start with much more modest ambitions and even sort of the great entrepreneurs. And as you sort of reach each of these new milestones, you're like, okay, the goalposts move back, and so your ambitions become much broader over time. And this is kind of. All this doesn't happen overnight. So when you kind of look at. I talked at the beginning of how kind of daunting everything seemed, because there's like, the little corner of stuff that you know and this world of stuff that you don't often that can be enough of a barrier to stop people from even getting started. So just realize that you have to be systematic about how you learn all these things. But this all happens one day at a time.
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