Box (Company)

Extracted Attributes

• Type

  Public company

• Stake

  7.5% acquired by Starboard Value

• Founders

  Aaron Levie, Dylan Smith

• Former Name

  Box.net

• Company Name

  Box, Inc.

• Founded Date

  2005

• Headquarters

  Redwood City, California, USA

• Core Services

  Cloud-based content management, collaboration, file sharing tools

• Funding Before IPO

  Approximately $500 million

• Current Business Focus

  Business users

• Initial Business Focus

  Consumers

• Key Technologies/Strategic Focus

  AI Innovation, AI Agents

• Business Paradigm (as discussed by Aaron Levie)

  Software going after Labor Spend

• Economic Strategy (as discussed by Aaron Levie)

  Accelerationism

Timeline

• Box, Inc. (then Box.net) was founded by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2005

• Box pivoted its business focus from consumers to business users. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2009-2010

• Box became a public company via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange. (Source: web_search_results)

  2015-01-23

• Box moved its headquarters to Redwood City, California. (Source: web_search_results)

  2016-01

• Box acquired search engine company Butter.ai. (Source: web_search_results)

  2018-07

• Hedge fund Starboard Value took a 7.5% stake in the company. (Source: web_search_results)

  2019

• Aaron Levie, co-founder of Box, discussed the transformative potential of AI innovation and AI agents, proposing a shift towards 'Software going after Labor Spend' and an economic strategy of 'Accelerationism'. (Source: document_44a07cad-2323-4212-9339-0c55198fbc83)

  Recent

Box, Inc.

Box, Inc. (formerly Box.net) is an American public company based in Redwood City, California. It develops and markets cloud-based content management, collaboration, and file sharing tools for businesses. Box was founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith. Initially, it focused on consumers, but around 2009 and 2010 Box pivoted to focus on business users. The company raised about $500 million over numerous funding rounds before going public in 2015. Its software allows users to store and manage files in an online folder system accessible from any device. Users can then comment on the files, share them, apply workflows, and implement security and governance policies.

Web Search Results

• Box, Inc. - Wikipedia

  Box, Inc. (formerly Box.net) is an American public company based in Redwood City, California. It develops and markets cloud-based content management, collaboration, and file sharing tools for businesses. Box was founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith "Dylan Smith (businessman)"). Initially, it focused on consumers, but around 2009 and 2010 Box pivoted to focus on business users. The company raised about $500 million over numerous funding rounds before going public in 2015. Its software [...] On January 23, 2015 Box became a public company via an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.( Box moved its headquarters to its current location in Redwood City, California in January 2016.( In July 2018, Box acquired search engine company Butter.ai.( In 2019, hedge fund Starboard Value took a 7.5% stake in the company.( [...] | v t e File hosting services | | --- | | Active | Accellion Backblaze Baidu Wangpan Box "Box (company)") Cryptee CloudMe DocuWare Dropbox GameFront Google Drive IBM Connections iCloud Drive Jumpshare kDrive Livedrive MediaFire Mega "Mega (service)") Nextcloud Microsoft OneDrive Proton Drive Resilio Sync Seafile ShareFile SpiderOak SugarSync Syncthing Tencent Weiyun TitanFile Tresorit WeTransfer Yandex Disk |

• How Box Conquered the Enterprise and Became a $1.7 Billion ...

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• About Box — The Company

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• Box

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