Aaron Levie (Box.net) - Delivering Innovation for the Enterprise

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2011

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Box.net CEO Aaron Levie is an entrepreneur who seeks to reinvent how enterprise businesses share content across their organizations. In 2005, Levie saw the need for affordable storage on the Internet, and co-founded Box.net out of his college dorm room. In this high-energy lecture, Levie shares the successes and challenges of his company's move from early-stage startup to scalable cloud technology venture.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series,
0:07.0	brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eCORner.
0:15.0	Stanford.edu.
0:18.0	Today's special guest is Aaron Levy, who is the co-founder and CEO of Box.net.
0:23.6	I got a chance to talk to him a few days ago as we prepped for this lecture, and I have to tell
0:29.6	you, I think you're going to be wowed. He is inspiring and interesting and very funny.
0:34.6	And he's got a great story to tell. So without further ado,
0:40.3	Aaron.
0:41.3	Cool, thank you. And actually, slight coincidence, our company is actually underwritten
0:47.3	by Draper Fisher-Durvenson as well. So this is a, thank you, DFJ. Can you hear me fine? Are we plugged in and everything?
0:56.0	Cool, very good.
0:58.0	And I think, so I'm going to use a PowerPoint to go through what I'm talking about.
1:02.0	How's everybody doing, by the way?
1:04.0	Great.
1:05.0	Okay, very cool.
1:06.0	Okay, we're jumping right in.
1:07.0	So I'm Aaron Levy, the CEO and co-founder of Box.
1:10.0	And we'll talk a little
1:11.1	about what Box is. And this is actually a new presentation. So hopefully it's useful. I've
1:16.3	done my best to make it useful, but you sort of get what you pay for. And I don't know how
1:19.7	much you guys paid for the tickets to this thing, but we'll see how it goes. Okay, so
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