> "In 2015, I had built a prototype of a tool at Box. Box had a collaborative note-taking product called Box Notes (based on Hackpad). I had the idea to make a

> "In 2015, I had built a prototype of a tool at Box. Box had a collaborative note-taking product called Box Notes (based on Hackpad). I had the idea to make a similar project for working with numbers: sometimes you didn’t need a full spreadsheet, you just needed a place to put together a handful of formulas, format it with some headings and text, and share it with other people. Sort of like an ipython notebook for spreadsheets. I called it Box Sums." > "Nothing came of it, but I took the code and shoved it into my back pocket for a rainy day." ... > "Apparently that was a thing. I remember being only half-surprised at the time. I hadn’t considered that our threat model might include employees leaking the computations used to produce the numbers in question." ... > "My first reaction was to publish the code on Github." Perhaps the author feels "only half-surprised" due to their own disregard for corporate legal ownership of code. The hypocrisy is strong here.