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Drew did.

Drew was a student at MIT … he loved engineering .. and loved that at computers all over campus you could log on and have your desktop and files instantly available … then Drew graduated and got involved with a some start-ups … and realised he’d gone back to the stone age … he couldn’t get his stuff when he needed it … and carrying around everything on a USB sticks didn’t seem safe or practical … so he created some solutions for himself that worked and then wondered if it might help others. Realizing it would .. he pitched some venture capitalists … and summed his idea up as follow you never saw .. Tom Cruise in Minority Report carrying around a thumb drive .. well he got his funding … then he did something extra clever .. rather than possibly alienating target user with a poor beta test project … he instead created a video explaining what he was doing … it was faster, easier, and gathered essentially same input …. plus built an eager audience waiting for the finished product. When Drew launched his idea was an immediate hit.

Today, 11 years later the online business Drew Houston created with a partner now has over 500 million users worldwide … and has made him a multi-billionaire … all because he didn’t want to carry his files on a thumb drive. DropBox

DropBox is a great idea because solving your own needs might help solve someone else’s too.