<p>Box CEO Aaron LevieBox Inc., the Web-storage provider with more than 140,000 business customers, is planning to hold its initial public offering in 2014, Chief Executive Officer Aaron Levie said yesterday in an interview.</p><p>"The kind of business that we're in is certainly well- suited to be public," Levie said at Bloomberg's San Francisco office. While the CEO has previously told reporters an IPO could come this year, he said yesterday that "2013 is a long shot" and that for now, Box plans to invest in growth.</p><p>Box, a Los Altos, California-based provider of online- storage and collaboration software, is betting that demand for enterprise-technology stocks will remain buoyant into next year. While some consumer Web companies, including Groupon Inc. and Zynga Inc., have foundered since their IPOs, business-software makers Workday Inc. and Splunk Inc. have each surged more than 80 percent since 2012 public-market debuts.</p><p>Co-founded by Levie in 2005, Box has withstood rising competition from larger companies, such as Microsoft Corp., as well as fellow startups, including Dropbox Inc. Box has attracted more than $280 million in venture capital from investors including General Atlantic LLC, Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Salesforce.com Inc.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/27-year-old-box-ceo-plans-to-hire-300-more-people-ipo-in-2014-2013-1">Keep reading...</a></p>