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#150 CEO Box, Aaron Levie w/ Mamoon Hamid: Open For Business

Grit

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Aaron and Dylan's First Investment as a Venture Capitalist

The four co-founders, when they dropped out of college, moved into this office building that was I think only zoned for office. And we were in the garage. So this is like a series B company that where the founders were still living in the office. There's a lot of things that I would both not ever do again and definitely not recommend to anybody else. We got Josh Stein's first million and a half or so. The majority of it instantly went to this big storage array company. But he wondered why very little money was going towards salaries.

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