Cloud Giants - Meeting Aaron Levie, Co-Founder and CEO of Box
On Cloud Giants, a podcast brought to you by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), Byron Deeter interviews entrepreneurs, founders, and great leaders who have built world-changing cloud companies.
In this episode, Byron talks to Aaron Levie one of the founders and the CEO of Box a well-known cloud content management and file sharing service for businesses.
Listeners will hear about:
- The origin story of Box - the challenges that Aaron and his friends faced during their college lives that inspired their idea to create a central file-sharing repository.
- His experiences on the difficult, yet exciting journey to fund the idea - including how a cold e-mail led to an early investment of $300,000 by Mark Cuban, one of more than 100 parties they pitched to.
- Reasons why the company decided to focus on offering an "enterprise-only" solution and why he felt this was a key turning point for the company.
- Aaron's perspective on the Initial Public Offering in 2015 - some of the jarring changes he experienced during and after the transition that led him to conclude the real work was only just beginning.
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The full Cloud Giants Podcast Series from Bessemer Venture Partners is accessible here:
https://www.bvp.com/atlas/cloud-giants
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