I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.

A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.

The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.