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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Box comes up
20VC: Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on How It All Started With Paul Graham @ YC, The Biggest Surprises About Making The Move Into VC & Why Alexis Believes All The Best Investors Have Operating Experience
- ▶ 24:59 Alexis Ohanian There's all these crappy solutions that everyone's hacked together, and it's a really strong team, box veterans,
20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Rory currently sits on the board of some incredible companies, including Bill.com, Box, Datasift, DocuSign, OneLogin, and many more incredible names.
- ▶ 23:01 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, I've loved working with Josh and Box.
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings Box and Yammer, and Mamoon started his Silicon Valley career in 1997 at Xilinx, where he spent six years in various engineering and marketing roles.
- ▶ 5:47 Mamoon Hamid Did my first investment at USVP, and that was in Box, and which got me really turned on to SaaS and productivity software, and it's an area that I've been investing in pretty heavily since that time, so almost a decade.
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on The Commonalities Of Truly Great Founders and Learnings From Investing In Box, Twilio and GainSight
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Partner at the world-famous Bessemer Venture Partners, and Byron himself is a veteran cloud CEO and founder, returning to the venture capital game in 2005 to lead Bessemer's global cloud practice, where he's been actively involved with…
- ▶ 16:57 Byron Deeter We, we are proud investors in box. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:18 Harry Stebbings And you mentioned some of the incredible investments there that Bessemer have made in SendGrid, in Box, in DocuSign, just, you know, picking some out of thin air there.
20VC: Greylock's Sarah Tavel on What Founders Need From A Good Investor and Why Products Need To Be 10X Better & Cheaper
- ▶ 19:07 Sarah Tavel Dropbox and Box and Sugarsteak and any of the alternatives without actually getting to try the product.
20VC: Tyler Willis on How To Be Innovative With Customer Acquisition and The Future Of Innovation
- ▶ 13:30 Tyler Willis At the same point, Aaron Levy didn't know anything about the enterprise before he started box.
20 VC FF 032: Jeff Seibert on Lessons From Being Acquired By Twitter & Box and Now Leading Twitter's Consumer Product
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings However, his entrepreneurial success does not end there, as before Crashlytics, Jeff was the founder of InCrayo, which was Box's first ever acquisition in 2009.
- ▶ 5:11 Harry Stebbings The acquisition by Box, the acquisition by Twitter, and now life at Twitter.
- ▶ 5:23 Harry Stebbings So leading up to the acquisition by Box, what was it like going to Sandhill Road to raise in 2009 with the obvious financial turmoil only the year before? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:59 Harry Stebbings In terms of communicating to your team, transparency is key, and a lot of your startup employees might have joined you instead of someone like Box. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:24 Harry Stebbings And as you suggest that one of your reasons for being favorable towards the Twitter acquisition was their agreement to continually invest in the Crashlytics platform, something that didn't maybe happen within Creo and Box.
- ▶ 19:44 Jeff Seibert I'm working at box.
20 VC: David Tisch @ Box Group on The Future of Consumer Mobile, Developing Pattern Recognition and FOMO
- ▶ 8:56 David Tisch Um, underground, like, cool nightclub called The Box in New York, which I thought was a cool name. 2 times in the scene