It’s just before midnight on a Monday, and Houston has turned his favorite late-night watering hole, the bar in San Francisco’s W Hotel, into a fraternity party—literally. The first to arrive is Adam Smith, who was a fellow Phi Delta Theta at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before dropping out to start an e-mail search company, Xobni. Then come Chris, Jason and Joe (who has a Dropbox tattoo on his arm because he feels “Drew is changing the world”), more MIT brothers aiming to live a California dream they all imagined back in Cambridge as “billionaires, bottles and babes.” With girlfriends in tow, Smith and Houston gulp glasses of Pinot and reminisce about the summer they spent coding in boxers because the A/C was down. “Those were the days,” smiles Houston with his arm around Smith. “Just me and my code. None of this hiring and firing business.
From Forbes’s profile on Dropbox creator Drew Houston.
This whole without-irony brogramming thing leaves me utterly cold, I have to admit. I’m pretty sure I’d be miserable working there.
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