Accellion Pushes SharePoint-Friendly File Sharing

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David F. Carr | October 31, 2011

While cloud startups like Box joust with Microsoft, Accellion makes a case for SharePoint compatibility for file sharing and on-premises options.

Sometimes it's hard to be a grownup in Silicon Valley.

The week of the Box user conference in late September, as co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie strutted the stage making wisecracks about Box's superiority over SharePoint, Accellion founder and CEO Yorgen Edholm and chief marketing officer Paula Skokowski were watching the webcast and groaning.

"Oh, she was in a foul mood," Edholm said. Like Box, Accellion is in the business of secure file sharing and transfer. But having been founded in 1999, it's less of a shiny new thing.

Having previously co-founded the business intelligence software firm Brio and served on the board of Hyperion prior to its acquisition by Oracle, Edholm is positively ancient compared with Levie, who came up with the idea for Box as a business school exercise and dropped out of school to start the company in 2006. "It does seem so much is written about the youth of the founder," Edholm said.

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