Recently Business Week compiled a list of America’s brightest and youngest entrepreneurs, many of whom have made millions before the age of twenty-five. One highlighted young businessman was Duke alumnus Dylan Smith, T ‘07, an economics-major from Seattle with a penchant for taking calculated risks. Smith left the West Coast for Duke University expecting to be pre-med. By his sophomore year, however, Smith had changed his sights to business and had begun raking in winnings from online poker tournaments. At this point, Smith’s childhood friend Aaron Levie contacted him about an online venture in data storage solutions. With an investment of $11,000 of Smith’s poker winnings, the young Blue Devil and his buddy at USC founded Box.net, an online collaboration tool now used by more than 50,000 companies worldwide.
You can read more about Box.net and its CFO Dylan Smith in this Seattle Times article.
