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Books they recommend 15
Levie's most concrete recommendations come from his Stanford "How to Start a Startup" (Startup Class) lecture, where he named a trio of must-reads for B2B founders, plus a steady stream of book endorsements on Twitter/X and in interviews. His taste skews to go-to-market and competitive strategy — the disciplines that defined Box's enterprise pivot.
Book recommendations listed on their Good Books profile 9
Entrepreneurship and Startups 3
Company Histories 2
Biography and Memoir 2
Business and Management 1
Technology and Computing 1
Superbook reading list 6
Business and Management 2
Clayton M. Christensen
“Also named in his Startup Class trio; disruption theory underpins his framing of cloud software displacing incumbents.”
W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne · not in an entry yet
“Recommended in a YouTube interview as one of four books he'd "highly recommend reading."”
Not yet given a topic 2
Al Ries, Jack Trout
“Flagged on X as a "great book" on messaging and framing — a discipline he returns to often.”
Geoffrey Moore · not in an entry yet
“Called it a "fantastic book" on X for its model of how established companies must keep innovating.”
Sales and Marketing 1
Geoffrey A. Moore
“Named in his Startup Class lecture as one of three books that will leave founders "ahead"; foundational to how Box crossed into the enterprise market.”
Company Histories 1
Marc Benioff
“The third book in his lecture trio — Salesforce's playbook, a natural template for Box's own cloud-enterprise journey.”