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!