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“My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.”

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Aaron Levie (born 1985) is an American entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Box, a leading cloud content management platform. Known for his visionary leadership in cloud computing and enterprise software, he transformed Box from a startup into a global company serving over 100,000 businesses. Levie is recognized for driving digital transformation and innovation in enterprise collaboration. more

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