What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.
If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.
You think about who needs Dropbox, and it's just about anybody with a pulse.
A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.
There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.
