96: Timothy Young, President of Dropbox

The theme of the past year - in an obvious sense - has been how we continue to lead progressive, efficient, and normalized work lives in a highly unnormal world. The pandemic has forced us to rethink how we collaborate, engage and connect from first principles. One of the most ubiquitous products we all use in that effort is Dropbox - and it’s why this week I was thrilled to be joined by Timothy Young, President of Dropbox.

Talking with Timothy was unique and interesting on multiple levels - on one sense, we dug deeply into the way Dropbox is reimagining the workplace and on the other hand we dove into how these changes in our work environment flow through the underlying products Dropbox is developing.

We spent a lot of time talking about Dropbox’s new “Virtual First” strategy, how companies overcome friction when introducing new ideas, building the right model and environment for employees and the challenges of remote work - at the employee, team and management levels.

I learned a lot from Timothy and this was one of the most engaging discussions we’ve had on the pod.