[6] He attended the University of Southern California studying with an undeclared major before dropping out during his junior year in 2005 to start cloud storage company Box.

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 and Smith first secured angel investment for Box from Texas billionaire Mark Cuban after a cold e-mail.

[20] Levie has spoken at industry events such as Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Dreamforce, CxOTalk, LeWeb, RSA, MobileBeat, GigaOm Structure, TechCrunch Disrupt and DEMO.

He has also written articles on innovation in the technology industry for publications such as The Washington Post, CNN.com, Los Angeles Times, Fortune, Forbes, ZDNet and Fast Company.