Aaron Levie

Aaron Winsor Levie (born December 27, 1984) (pronounced ) is an American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the enterprise cloud company Box. Early life and education Aaron Levie was born to a Jewish family from Mercer Island, Washington, a small suburb of Seattle, but was born in Boulder, Colorado. His parents are Ben and Karyn Levie. Levie attended the University of Southern California before taking a leave of absence in 2005 to start cloud storage company Box. Career The idea for Box originated as a college business project that Levie was working on in 2004. 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 saw an opportunity to build an online file storage business as a way for individuals to access and store documents and files.