Tim Cook congratulates founder Aaron Levie, calls Box ‘a great company’

Apple CEO Tim Cook reached out via Twitter to Aaron Levie after his cloud file-sharing company Box opened on the New York Stock Exchange this morning.

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Congratulations to @levie and the Box team on their IPO and for creating a great company!

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) January 23, 2015

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Box saw a 40 percent pop on its initial offering of $14 a share, arriving at $20.20 on the NYSE today. The company took the long road to get to its IPO. Box first filed an S-1 form in March 2014 and then twice delayed its NYSE debut.