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Drew Houston
Drew Houston is an American Internet entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service
33 books they recommend
Books they recommend 33
Houston discussed his reading at length on the Tim Ferriss Show and in a CNBC segment on his favorite business books. His core canon is Drucker, Andy Grove, and a surprising emotional-intelligence thread — he credits Goleman's book with teaching him that "anything is trainable," seeding his own growth mindset. He gravitates to operating manuals and first-principles thinkers.
Book recommendations listed on their Good Books profile 25
Business and Management 11
Marcus Buckingham, Gallup Organization · not in an entry yet aggregator only
Company Histories 4
Entrepreneurship and Startups 2
Sales and Marketing 2
Biography and Memoir 1
Investing 1
Philosophy 1
Leadership 1
Negotiation and Persuasion 1
Psychology and Behaviour 1
Superbook reading list 8
Business and Management 3
Peter F. Drucker
“A top favorite he highlights for its lessons on managing time, decisions, and managing by objectives.”
Andrew S. Grove
“One of his most-cited management texts; he repeatedly points to Grove's Intel-era playbook as foundational.”
Andrew S. Grove
“His other go-to Grove title, on navigating strategic inflection points — apt for a company under constant platform pressure.”
Psychology and Behaviour 1
Daniel Goleman · not in an entry yet
“Says it "spelled out something I just didn't know you could break down in a logical way," giving him a new understanding of people and seeding his growth mindset.”
Leadership 1
Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Klemp · not in an entry yet
“A leadership book he has recommended for self-awareness and taking radical responsibility as a CEO.”
Not yet given a topic 1
Roger L. Martin, A.G. Lafley
“A favorite strategy text he cites for its concrete framework on where-to-play / how-to-win choices.”
Philosophy 1
Robert Pirsig
“Recommends it for the philosophical questions he says matter to engineers — quality, craft, and reason.”
Investing 1
Charlie Munger
“On his reading list; Munger's latticework of mental models is a recurring influence for him.”