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
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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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