and co-founder, aaron levie. >> how you doing? >> how you doing?> good, thank you. >> blue sneakers today, i appreciate that. what are the socks? >> these are cloud socks. >> ok. >> official cloud socks. for the enterprise offer industry. >> i like it. you grew up in seattle. >> yes. >> what kind of kid were you? >> probably not atypical of, certainly, people that have -- are in the tech industry. so, i spent far too long, far too much time, on the internet. not, sort of, large volume of friends. most of those that were my friends i founded the company, i founded box with. we were growing up in the shadow of microsoft. >> did you idolize jeff bezos and bill gates? >> yeah, everybody knew the bill gates story kind of by heart. what's cool about microsoft is that you can actually go and they let you be a product tester. so a lot of people in high school would actually go to microsoft and test out new products and then they would give you like a free mouse at the end of it. >> ok, you met your co-founders in middle school. tell me about that. >> so, d