Drew Houston

The article reports Houston's Fortune Leadership Next podcast appearance and names High Output Management among the business books that shaped how he runs Dropbox.

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Business Insider · 2025-06-11 · accessed 2026-06-20

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Business Insider reports Houston's Fortune Leadership Next appearance, names High Output Management among his favorite/loved leadership books, and quotes his explanation of the CEO mindsets those books taught.

The article reports Houston's Fortune Leadership Next podcast appearance and names Only the Paranoid Survive among the business books that shaped how he runs Dropbox.

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Business Insider · 2025-06-11 · accessed 2026-06-20

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Business Insider reports Houston's Fortune Leadership Next appearance, names Only the Paranoid Survive among his favorite/loved leadership books, and quotes his explanation of the CEO mindsets those books taught.

Houston included the book among management and leadership books that shaped how he runs Dropbox.

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Business Insider · 2025-06 · accessed 2026-06-21

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Business Insider reports Houston naming leadership and management books on Fortune's Leadership Next podcast and summarizes his rationale.

Houston named the book in the same Fortune Leadership Next source event as his other business-book recommendations.

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Business Insider · 2025-06 · accessed 2026-06-21

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Business Insider reports Houston naming leadership and management books on Fortune's Leadership Next podcast and summarizes his rationale.

Houston named the book when Tim Ferriss asked what three to five books would form the core of his reading list for smart nontechnical undergraduates.

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Tim Ferriss · 2018-08-29 · accessed 2026-06-23

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In response to Ferriss's core-reading-list question, Houston names The Hard Thing About Hard Things as a favorite book about the experience of running a company.

Houston named Poor Charlie's Almanack in the same core reading-list answer and explained its value for mental models and judgment.

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Tim Ferriss · 2018-08-29 · accessed 2026-06-23

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In response to Ferriss's core-reading-list question, Houston names Poor Charlie's Almanack as one of a couple favorite books and explains its decision-making value.

Houston included Pirsig's book in the philosophical portion of his core reading-list answer and described its value for engineers and leaders.

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Tim Ferriss · 2018-08-29 · accessed 2026-06-23

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Houston discusses Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in his core-reading-list answer as a book about rational and aesthetic judgment.

Houston included Ray Dalio's Principles at the end of his core reading-list answer as a useful life-approach book.

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Tim Ferriss · 2018-08-29 · accessed 2026-06-23

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Houston includes Principles by Ray Dalio in the core-reading-list answer and says Dalio sketched concise and good thoughts about approaching life.

Houston named The Innovator's Dilemma while discussing books that helped him study company-building and startup strategy.

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Tim Ferriss · 2018-08-29 · accessed 2026-06-23

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Houston says The Innovator's Dilemma was one of two books that were really instrumental and explains its disruption/startup relevance.

Houston named Crossing the Chasm alongside The Innovator's Dilemma while discussing instrumental startup and technology-marketing books.

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Tim Ferriss · 2018-08-29 · accessed 2026-06-23

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Houston identifies Crossing the Chasm as another classic after naming The Innovator's Dilemma as instrumental.

Houston discussed Getting to Yes as part of an MIT negotiation class that opened his eyes to people and business skills.

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Tim Ferriss · 2018-08-29 · accessed 2026-06-23

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Houston says he still thinks about and applies many concepts from Getting to Yes, but this is kept as a mention because it is not part of his core reading-list answer.

Houston described Emotional Intelligence as an early formative book that changed how he understood trainable human and business skills.

The quote is taken word for word from the source. It is a mention, not counted as a direct recommendation.

Tim Ferriss · 2018-08-29 · accessed 2026-06-23

Transcript · Podcast transcript

Houston says Emotional Intelligence spelled out something he did not know could be broken down logically, but this is kept as a mention because he describes formative impact rather than a direct recommendation.