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After starting a $900 million company in his parents' garage, Boxed's CEO learned to embrace this type of stress

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After starting a $900 million company in his parents' garage, Boxed's CEO learned to embrace this type of stress (via CNBCMakeIt)

stock opened at $8.90 per share, and rose to roughly $13 per share within its first two hours of trading.

We should be equipped to answer every question confidently. If we can't answer it, we'll either get back to them, or it's not answerable. This is how I think about the world these days. I'm learning something new every single day. When you go into public markets, they're asking you things like, "We noticed on row 85, column double Z, what does this number represent?"

I read all these stories about people waking up at like 3 a.m., and it's supposed to be the best time to concentrate. I'm like, "3 a.m. is the best time to sleep." I don't know what they're talking about.

 

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