Aaron Levie | The $1 Trillion AI Opportunity, Stories From Early Days of Box
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Aaron Levie is a co-founder and the CEO of Box. This conversation covers opportunities in AI, the early days of Box, and lessons Aaron's learned on his founder journey.
Timestamps
(00:00 ) Intro
(03:11 ) Why ChatGPT was an iPhone moment
(04:37 ) Advice for large companies incorporating AI
(11:16 ) Why AI will add jobs, not steal them
(16:13 ) How AI is supercharging Box’s products
(19:03 ) AI agents: the $1 trillion opportunity
(25:27 )Estimating size of new markets(29:58 ) Starting Box with high school friends
(33:18 ) Living out of their first office
(34:52 ) Why early investors passed on Box
(37:24 ) Pivoting from consumer to B2B
(39:53 ) How Box got its first customers
(41:57 ) Should founders talk to Associates at VC firms?
(43:26 ) How Mamoon at Kleiner saved Box at its Series B
(46:25 ) Turning down an acquisition before IPO
(50:51 ) Why Box’s IPO was so hard
(54:11 ) Fending off an activist investor during COVID
Check out Box: https://www.box.com/
Where to find Aaron:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/levie
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boxaaron/
Where to find Turner:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/turnernovak/
Newsletter: https://www.thespl.it/
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