Jeetu Patel is Chief Product Officer at Box. He leads the company's product strategy, driving Box’s long-term roadmap and vision for cloud content management in the enterprise. Previously, as Chief Strategy Officer and SVP of Platform at Box, Jeetu led the creation of the Box Platform business unit, overseeing product strategy, marketing, and developer relations. He grew the team from a nascent product to a revenue-generating business line and key element on Box’s overall suite of offerings. He also led corporate development & M&A strategy as well as Box for Industries.

Before joining Box, Jeetu was General Manager and Chief Executive of EMC’s Syncplicity business unit which he grew from $0 to $100M in 2.5 years. Prior to EMC, Jeetu was president of Doculabs, a research and advisory firm co-owned by Forrester Research focused on collaboration and content management across a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, energy, manufacturing, and life sciences.

 Jeetu holds a B.S. in Information Decision Sciences from the University of Illinois Chicago.

On This Episode:

• Jeetu discusses how COVID-19 has impacted their day to day operations.
• Learn how Jeetu keeps his team motivated even when he can’t be with them in person.
• Hear how injustice has inspired Jeetu’s team.
• Discover the key to hiring a good team.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “There's no two right answers in most issues.”

  “Extremely smart people do insanely logical things for exactly right reasons that kill businesses all the time.”

Jeetu's Top Plays:

1. You have to articulate purpose to bring people together.
2. Disruption only comes when you are successful.
3. Build something a few people love as opposed to something that everybody likes.

Jeetu Patel:

• twitter.com/Jpatel41

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeetupatel/