51 - Aaron Levie, Box CEO: A College Dropout Builds a Billion-Dollar Cloud
Fortt Knox5 Marras 2017

51 - Aaron Levie, Box CEO: A College Dropout Builds a Billion-Dollar Cloud

It’s a familiar story in tech history: college friends stumble onto a big idea, drop out to pursue it, build a company, make mistakes, and eventually take that company public and make millions of dollars. That’s Apple, that’s Microsoft, that’s Facebook – and that’s Box.

Aaron Levie is the cofounder and CEO of Box, a company founded at the dawning of the cloud era. The basic idea: Wouldn’t it be great if we could store all kinds of digital files on the internet and teams could work on them at the same time, instead of emailing them around?

The answer is yes. That would be great. And Levie and his friends built a company now worth nearly $3 billion proving it.

The cloud thing seems obvious now, but when Levie was 20 years old and co-founded Box 12 years ago, it was far from it. I started covering him and the company in the early years of that journey, and I sat down with him days ago at the Nasdaq Marketsite in Times Square to catch up. At the wizened old age of 32, Aaron’s got a fresh take on advice he should have heeded, and where Silicon Valley needs to go next.


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3 - Thanksgiving, and the Muslim Branch of My Evangelical Family

3 - Thanksgiving, and the Muslim Branch of My Evangelical Family

This week on the Fortt Knox podcast, I want to get a little personal. Instead of hearing from a business leader or celebrity as usual, you're going to hear from someone closer to home. My home. The United States right now is struggling with how to respond to the scourge of terrorism -- and how to relate to Muslim Americans here at home. It's something my family has a unique bit of experience with. And this being the days after the Thanksgiving holiday, and after a presidential election, it's a good time to reflect on family. And the country. The voice you heard at the beginning of this episode was my cousin on my dad's side. Omar. I'm a Christian. My faith is an important part of my life. I try to study my Bible regularly, I attend church weekly. My father is a retired pastor and chaplain. My grandfather was a pastor, too. Omar and his siblings are Muslim. His parents converted before he was born. It's fair to say religion has always been a source of tension in our family, but especially over the last 20 years. Through it all, we've tried -- with mixed results -- to keep the family together. So I asked Omar if he would sit down and talk to me for Fortt Knox about something we can all relate to at a time like this: The struggle to find common ground in the face of fundamental differences. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

28 Marras 201647min

2 - Lisa Su, AMD CEO: Beyond the Glass Cliff

2 - Lisa Su, AMD CEO: Beyond the Glass Cliff

Lisa Su, AMD CEO, on how she went from engineer to the corner office. In Fortt Knox's Podcast Edition, CNBC's Jon Fortt talks with leaders and influencers who make things happen. For the Live Edition of the show, check out Jon Fortt's Facebook Page. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

21 Marras 201621min

1 - Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder: Why Thomas Jefferson Would Love Reddit

1 - Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder: Why Thomas Jefferson Would Love Reddit

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, on how he got where he is and what makes him tick. In Fortt Knox's Podcast Edition, CNBC's Jon Fortt talks with leaders and influencers who make things happen. For the Live Edition of the show (which debuts the week of 11/14), check out Jon Fortt's Facebook Page. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

13 Marras 201625min

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