From Dorm Room to the Cloud: How a Class Project Sparked Box’s $3B Journey
The unlikely startup tale of Aaron Levie, cold emails, and a contrarian bet on online storage before 'cloud' was even a thing
This story is based on Box CEO Aaron Levie’s MAD Podcast interview: Box’s Big AI Leap.
The Spark: An Unlikely School Project
Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith co-founded Box in 2005, while they were sophomores in college. The idea stemmed from a class assignment that required students to do a SWOT analysis of a market. While others chose giants like Nike or Wal…
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