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.

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.

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

I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

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.

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

If every customer is using your product "correctly", you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.