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PANO] CO }AW R= AKEM 1x05 1 oat finned spoghetl dives a sieyecrrold car, and! has business meeiings ata takeaway, He Ines in an ordinary apartment, doesn take holidays ond, atthe age ays his blggest hxurys his smartphones! founder and GEG of Box, a successful Compony.he is worth about $100 milion. And! he wks very hard for his money: most days, he does not the office unt eter midnight werk so many huts because love what do. fm intedt about the busines’ says Lev 1 Levie and his childhood fiend Dytan Smith farted their company in 2005, hey had not even finished their university degrees. Box grow fost it offered a better way of storing data, and soon they had 86H with mony of the biggest companies in the USA. Leve lett university without fnishing his couse, Like most new businesses, Box did not bring in much {BEOME ot the start, Levie paid himset c SAG of only $500 ¢ month, and lived of tinned spaghetti and instant neodles.*_ Sometimes he even siept there too. \When Box began, Levie and Smith looked for {ORG + for that reason, nobody wanted fo risk lending them money They wl leer after letter bul could not fir money into Box. Once he had decided to de that, others followed and the business grew quick! fertainly not info money. | don't live in the office ~ now | have an apartment six minutes’ chive away - but there is no enormous house up in the hills’*__ Otherwise, he as has lunch meetings in burger bars.’And | stil ecily like tinned spaghetti. be happy if had it every day!

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