Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices... because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.