Awards & Recognition
★Forbes Cloud 100 judge/participant
★Fortune Brainstorm Tech speaker
★Fast Company Innovation Festival speaker
★Regular recognition as thought leader in enterprise software
★Box IPO (NYSE) in 2015 as major milestone
Notable Facts
→Co-founder and CEO of Box since 2005, valued at $4.42 billion
→Dropped out of USC junior year to start Box with Dylan Smith
→Secured early angel investment from Mark Cuban via cold email
→Led Box's IPO on NYSE in 2015 after rejecting $600M Citrix acquisition offer
→Company serves 40% of Fortune 500 companies with 115,000 business clients
→Active Twitter personality with 2.5M followers known for tech commentary
→Regular speaker at major tech conferences and industry thought leader
→Born 1984 in Boulder, Colorado; raised in Mercer Island, Washington