Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

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.