14 with Dan Huttenlocher, dean of the MIT Stephen A. Houston talked about his experience leading Dropbox through a public health crisis and how Covid-19 has accelerated a shift to distributed work in a fireside chat on Oct. ![]() For a lot of it we were just taking it as we go.” “It’s surreal, there’s no playbook for running a global company in a pandemic over Zoom. In the early days of the pandemic, Houston says that Dropbox reacted as many others did to ensure that employees were safe and customers were taken care of. ![]() “It felt like I was announcing a snow day or something.” When the cloud storage firm Dropbox decided to shut down its offices with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, co-founder and CEO Drew Houston ’05 had to send the company’s nearly 3,000 employees home and tell them they were not coming back to work anytime soon.
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