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.

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

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

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

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.

Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.