Video: Aaron Levie's #Startup Journey

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Aaron Levie is a Keynote Speaker at the 11th Founder Showcase, coming up next Wednesday, July 25th in Silicon Valley. Before he speaks at the Founder Showcase, we want to share a great talk Aaron did at Stanford where he discusses his previous startup failures, and the transformation of Box from launching with a few users in his dorm room, to ultimately “crossing the chasm” to a product used by 82% of Fortune 500 companies.

Aaron is the co-founder and CEO of Box - a secure cloud content management and collaboration tool. The company has raised nearly $160 million in venture capital, and has secured more than 8 million customers since launching in 2005 out of Aaron’s dorm room.

Come see Aaron along with Kevin Rose (Founder of Digg and Venture Partner at Google Ventures) and Hiten Shah (CEO of KISSmetrics ) onstage at the 11th Founder Showcase event on Wednesday, July 25th in Mountain View, CA. Get your tickets today.

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