DiscoverFuture Proof: Building AI Products that LastHow Box builds for Enterprise AI | Aaron Levie
How Box builds for Enterprise AI | Aaron Levie

How Box builds for Enterprise AI | Aaron Levie

Update: 2025-05-27
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Welcome to the first episode of the Future Proof Podcast: Building AI Products That Last! In this episode, we chat with Aaron Levie, CEO and founder of Box, about what it takes to build successful Enterprise AI products.

We cover:

  • Why good data is a moat / flywheel for AI products
  • The importance of access controls in RAG
  • Building broad or building deep
  • APIs, MCPs, A2A

(00:00 ) Clips

(00:30 ) Intro

(01:40 ) Box's AI strategy

(04:45 ) RAG use cases with proven value

(09:05 ) Horizontal vs. deep product strategy

(11:14 ) Prompts as IP

(12:05 ) Importance of secure RAG in enterprise AI

(16:28 ) Ingest vs. agentic queries

(19:10 ) APIs, MCPs and Agent-to-Agent

(21:20 ) Moats and network effects for AI companies

(26:49 ) Risk of bad data

(29:48 ) A few large AI agents vs. many niche AI agents

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How Box builds for Enterprise AI | Aaron Levie

How Box builds for Enterprise AI | Aaron Levie

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