My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.

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.

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

Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.

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