(The company is expected to set a price range for its offering as soon as this coming week and trade on the stock market by the end of the month.) Houston will become the newest member of a small club of tech founders who steered a start-up all the way to Wall Street. Last month, Dropbox filed to go public, and when it does Mr. Houston, now 35, has since taken a version of that same concept and turned it into Dropbox, an online file storage and collaboration company that has grown rapidly since its founding in 2007. Houston’s from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Acton, Mass. “He created this one little application, and it would basically display everybody’s shared files, and then if you clicked on a file, it would go ahead and ask everyone else on the network if they wanted to download it as well,” said Andrew Croswell, a friend of Mr. SAN FRANCISCO - When Drew Houston played computer games like Starcraft in high school, he made some changes so the games ran more smoothly on his friends’ computers.
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