Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie
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Aaron Levie, CEO & co-founder of Box, joins Azeem Azhar to explore how an “AI-first” mindset is reshaping every layer of Box – from product road-maps to pricing – and what that teaches the rest of us about building faster, smarter organisations.
Timestamps:
(00:00 ) Episode trailer
(02:04 ) The "lump of labor fallacy" in sci-fi books
(07:37 ) When individual productivity gains don’t translate to teams
(12:32 ) Box’s Friday AI demos
(21:23 ) How agents might redefine 100 years of management science
(26:37 ) A lesson on AI innovation from the early days of Ford
(29:52 ) Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and Sergey Brin are coding again?
(35:16 ) Pricing in a post-AI agent world
(38:43 ) Cheaper tokens, heavier usage: AI’s margin math
(43:02 ) Solving AI’s verifiability problem
(48:24 ) How Aaron uses AI in his personal life
Aaron's links:
- Box: https://www.box.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boxaaron/
- X/Twitter: https://x.com/levie
Azeem’s links:
- Substack: https://www.exponentialview.co/
- Website: https://www.azeemazhar.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azhar
- X/Twitter: https://x.com/azeem
This conversation was recorded for “Friday with Azeem Azhar”, live every Friday at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET. Catch it via Exponential View on Substack.
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