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Andrew W. Houston, born on 4 March 1983, is an American internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service. The archived source describes him as CEO and cites Forbes for an estimated net worth of US$2.2 billion; these are historical claims, not current role or wealth confirmations.
Houston was born in Acton, Massachusetts, in 1983 and attended Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in the 1990s. He graduated in computer science from MIT, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta and met Arash Ferdowsi, who would become Dropbox’s co-founder and CTO.
Houston and Ferdowsi founded Dropbox in 2007. At the time described by the source, Houston was CEO and owned 25% of the company.
In February 2020 he joined Facebook’s board, replacing Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who had left in May 2019.
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