Aaron Levie
On Thursday, Box filled in a missing piece on its AI platform when it bought automated metadata extracting startup, Alphamoon.
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Aaron Levie leads Box into its third era focused on workflow automation and AI
The content management industry is shifting from pure management to AI and workflow automation to put the content to work.
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AI didn’t invent creative remixing
Adobe Chief Strategy Officer Scott Belsky says that AI is not replacing creatives, so much as giving them more time to create.
We’ve seen a number of enterprise software companies making announcements related to generative AI in the last six weeks, from established companies like Salesforce and Adobe to startups like Ada…
Box launched in 2005 out of a dorm room. This week, after 17 years in business, the SaaS company reached a $1 billion run rate.
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How Box is balancing growth and profit as it nears $1B ARR
How does Box plan a future of both growth and making money now that the market appears to demand both? We spoke to CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie to understand its strategy moving forward.
It’s been a rough week for the crypto community as top tokens have seen massive selloffs, pushing some in the space to double down while…
The crypto markets buckled this week as fears of cascading failures of key blockchain finance players showed just how fragile things are for the asset…
How did Box manage to get out of the growth trap while also growing its gross margins, operating income and net profit in its most recent quarter?
Hey, it wasn’t that long ago that Box was lost in single-digit growth doldrums being dogged by activist investors. But today, the company announced its earnings, and revenue was up…
Despite a gloomy outlook for crypto markets based on the past few weeks of token turbulence, venture capitalists looking to spend their way into a web3 future aren’t taking their…
When you talk to folks about what they have missed most about the office since we moved to work from home in 2020, people often point to whiteboarding in a…
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Zendesk’s latest problem is an activist investor
Zendesk has been having some issues with its investors lately. Yesterday, activist investor Jana Partners piled on with an SEC filing that wasn’t terribly friendly.
Growth is good, but like the James Brown song, Klarna is paying the cost to be the boss.
While all the trends appear to be moving in the right direction, can Box keep it going, and what are its projections for FY2023? Let’s take a deeper look at…
There is often a mistaken impression that covering the enterprise is kind of dull when compared to the consumer side of the house, but having followed the space for a…
If we make critical remarks about Rent the Runway’s business, we’re not mocking the market demand it is working to meet. We’re noting that it is perhaps undercharging, which makes…
Throughout its history as a public company, Box has had a bumpy ride. The company was founded back in 2005 as a consumer file sharing service, but shifted a few…
A battle between Box and its majority shareholder Starboard Value over control of the board ended today when the company’s slate of directors easily defeated Starboard’s. It culminated months of…
Box reports earnings early to give shareholders time to review financials ahead of board vote
Box has been in an ongoing dispute with activist investors Starboard Value over control of the board, an argument that is expected to come to a head on September 9th…
Box’s new native e-signature product provides e-signature capability and unlimited signatures as part of Box’s business and enterprise plans at no additional cost.
The war between Box’s current leadership and activist shareholder Starboard took a new turn today with a detailed timeline outlining the two groups’ relationship, thanks to an SEC filing and companion press…
Squad used to be an app that connected people with similar interests for in-person meetups. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. While most social apps thrived under these conditions — people…
Box executives have been dealing with activist investor Starboard Value over the last year, along with fighting through the pandemic like the rest of us. Today the company reported earnings…
Collective, a back-office platform for the self-employed, raises $20M from Ashton Kutcher’s VC
With so much focus on the “creator economy”, and countries hit by the effects of the pandemic, the self-employed market is “booming”, for good or for ill. So it’s not…
Last week activist investor Starboard delivered a public letter rebuking Box for what it perceives as underperformance. Today the firm, which owns 8% of Box stock, making it the company’s…
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Altman brothers lead B2B payment startup Routable’s $30M Series B
We all know the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital adoption in a number of areas, particularly in the financial services space. Within financial services, there are few spaces hotter than B2B payments. With a $120 trillion market size, it’s no surprise that an increasing number of fintechs focused on digitizing…
Box announced this morning that private equity firm KKR is investing $500 million in the company, a move that could help the struggling cloud content management vendor get out from…
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As activist investors loom, what’s next for Box?
Activist investors will only sit still for so long, and when they take action, it usually involves one of two approaches: Replace the leadership team or induce a sale.
