We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.

That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

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.

In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.