Lecture 12 - Building for the Enterprise (Aaron Levie)

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

October 30, 2014

Duration

46m

Channel

YC Root Access

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Aaron-levie-lecture-12-sales-and-marketing-annotated Aaron Levie - founder of Box, enterprise master, Twitter comedic genius. In this lecture, he'll convince you to Build for the Enterprise. See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec12/ Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64041 This video is under Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Aaron Levie

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  Co-founder and CEO of Box, an enterprise cloud content management company.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of YC Root Access, featuring Aaron Levie, Lecture 12 - Building for the Enterprise (Aaron Levie) explores Aaron Levie on why enterprise software is startups’ biggest opportunity Box began as a simple consumer file-sharing product, but the team discovered it was overbuilt for consumers and underbuilt for enterprise security and control needs.

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