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Box reaches $1B run rate in spite of a quarter dogged by currency challenges



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Prior to launching as a startup in 2005, Box began as an idea that co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie had for a marketing class — to bring the power of the internet to file-sharing. The concept may not feel revolutionary today, but back then, you could email a file if it was small enough, or you could put it on a thumb drive and physically deliver it to the recipient. Other options were limited.
It’s hard to believe now, but the original academic idea grew into a startup, and later a way to take on the entrenched enterprise content management industry.
Box, which began so modestly, reported an even $250 million in revenue for the most recent quarter, the third quarter of its fiscal 2023, p …

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