If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'what's the party going on right now that I should be going to?

I don't use many apps. I use naps.

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.

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.

Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.