Aaron Winsor Levie (pronounced /ˈærən ˈlɛvi/) is an American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the enterprise cloud company Box, which as of 2014 had 39,000 paying corporate customers.
Aaron Levie was born to Ben and Karyn Levie in Boulder, Colorado. He grew up in Mercer Island, Washington and graduated from Mercer Island High School. Levie attended the University of Southern California before taking a leave of absence in 2005 to start cloud storage company Box.
The idea for Box originated as a college business project that Levie was working on in 2004. The project examined cloud storage options for businesses and after contacting several organizations to ask how they are storing their content and data, Levie came to the conclusion that the market was fragmented. Levie saw an opportunity to build an online file storage business as a way for individuals to access and store documents and files.
In December 2005, during his junior year at USC, Levie took a leave of absence to launch Box (originally called box.net) with his friend and Box CFO, Dylan Smith who was attending Duke University. At the time, Box was a storage service where users could pay to store their files in the cloud.
Sweet melodies
Breaking on a sullen ear
Will endear
And bring memories
Sweet melodies
Sweet melodies
Cross an ancient battlefield
Soaring still and claim memories
Say a short goodbye, a short goodbye now, a short goodbye now
Say a short goodbye, a short goodbye now, a short goodbye.
Sweet melodies
At a trembling finger stroke
Will evoke
A skin memory
Sweet melodies
Sweet melodies
Fade to quiet evening pale
And a trail of white memories
Say a short goodbye, a short goodbye now, a short goodbye now