Aaron Levie
48 statements across 6 episodes · 28 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Aaron Levie · said 6 times in 5 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019
Levie: Box has never conducted a formal board search
“We've never done a board search. What we've done is, is built advisors around the company, gotten close to lots of people I've personally engaged with, you know, 50 or so CEOs that have been through very similar problems over, over, you know, similar eras of t…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Levie: CEOs should forward existing internal company notes to boards
“You can actually find lots of ways to leverage communication you're already doing. So, like, we send a company all hands note monthly, and that is, sort of, lays out the strategy or whatever. Just literally forwarding that to the board of, FYI, here's the late…”
Jul 14, 2025 neutral
Levie: Enterprise AI adoption speed is limited by human workflow changes
“And that, that's something where I do think We have to be prepared for this as many years. It's about the speed at which humans can change their workflows as opposed to how kind of quickly the technology can just, you know, sort of evolve in advance.”
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Jul 14, 2025 neutral
Jul 14, 2025 neutral
Jul 14, 2025 positive
Jul 14, 2025 bearish
Levie: Graphical user interfaces will remain essential alongside AI agents
“The theory of, like, the full abstraction away from the interface, and it's all an API call, I don't think that happens, and so, ironically, probably what will happen is in a couple years from now, we will see agents, like, rebuild entire web pages and dashboa…”
Jul 14, 2025 positive
Levie: AI deep research queries have replaced chief of staff tasks
“The kind of thing that three years ago I might sort of lob over to the chief of staff and say, hey, can you like go research, like the pricing strategy of this ecosystem or something? That's just a deep research query now. And then I'll wake up and I'll look a…”
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Jul 14, 2025 bearish
Levie: Over 90% of workers do not want to prompt AI
“I think if you ask like 90%, if you ask the world population, you know, you probably find that 90 plus percent just don't care enough. They just don't like, they don't care about the tabs on their software and the modules on their dashboard. Like it's like the…”
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Levie: Vertical AI agents will outperform horizontal models in specialized workflows
“Now, that translates fine to agents, but I still would then bet on that, that vertical player doing that, as opposed to somebody prompts their way into ChatGPT to build a FDA compliance agent. I would still largely bet on, you know, complianceagent.ai to do th…”
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Aug 25, 2025 bullish
Aug 25, 2025 bearish
Aug 25, 2025 negative
Aug 25, 2025 positive
Aug 25, 2025 bullish
Aug 25, 2025 bullish
Sep 24, 2025
Levie: Tech incumbents rarely disrupt themselves, they expand into new markets
“And to your point, it's actually very rare whenever we say these companies disrupted themselves, it's almost never the case that they disrupted themselves. It's the case that they went after a market that they had no, No actual, you know, take the, you know, m…”
Sep 24, 2025 bullish
Sep 24, 2025 bullish
Levie: AI market will follow SaaS pattern with $100B new disruptors
“I think it's going to look like what we saw in something like SAS or cloud, which is the incumbents get bigger, but then there's all of these new categories that we would not have been able to predict. And then there's lots of 10 and 20 and fifty and one hundr…”
Sep 24, 2025 negative
Levie: Pricing H-1B visas allows big tech to capture most talent
“I think that you'd have a situation where the Amazons and Googles would probably actually capture the vast portion of the talent in this situation. So it's not clear to me that, like, startups sort of are come out ahead or better off from this particular imple…”
Sep 24, 2025 bullish
Levie: AI transforms company creation in ways cloud computing never did
“By 2005, other than the fact that our resources were in the cloud versus, you know, you had to go to a data center. In our case, we actually still went to the data center. Like, not that much about the company building process was different. Today, in 25, ever…”
Apr 8, 2026 neutral
Apr 8, 2026 bullish
Levie: Future SaaS success depends on building high-quality APIs for AI agents
“Everybody that built a SaaS business or a software business is like, the game is, can you build really, really high quality APIs? Can you have a way of monetizing that? You know, do you have a way of handling the identities and all of the access controls for a…”
Apr 8, 2026 bullish
Levie: AI agents will increase file volume, boosting Box's business model
“Every agent really loves working with files, so there'll probably be more files in the future than there was going to be before, and so, you know, can we build a platform that, like, makes it really easy for agents to work with that data? You know, we, we're b…”
Apr 8, 2026 bullish
Levie: AI agents with spending budgets will unlock new internet business models
“You do give these agents, you know, a budget and a protocol to work with, and all of a sudden you're like, oh, Like, on the fly, they can go get medical research for some deep research tasks they're doing, and I'll pay, like, three dollars for that, and the ag…”
Apr 8, 2026 positive
Apr 8, 2026 neutral
Apr 8, 2026 neutral
Apr 8, 2026 positive
Apr 8, 2026
Apr 8, 2026 bearish
Apr 8, 2026 neutral
Apr 8, 2026 bullish
Levie: AI-native service firms will disrupt incumbents before hitting normal corporate limits
“I do think that will be relatively disruptive You know, for some time until the bigger incumbents can kind of, you know, get out of the way on this. And that will at least create, you know, some precedent or case studies of what this new sort of corporation co…”
Apr 8, 2026
Apr 28, 2026 bullish
Levie: Enterprise AI implementation will fuel services businesses for decades
“So, so that, and that's going to be, there's going to be businesses that are doing that for decades. Like it's going to be an incredible opportunity for this kind of next generation set of firms, as well as existing ones that, that lean into that.”
Apr 28, 2026 bullish
Apr 28, 2026 bullish
Levie: AI code generation will increase software complexity and engineering jobs
“The funniest concept that the more code we write, the less we would need engineers would be the opposite because now your systems are even more complex than before, which means that you're going to be running into even more challenges of when you need to do a …”
Apr 28, 2026 positive
Apr 28, 2026
Apr 28, 2026 negative
Levie: AI agents fail in enterprises without human social workarounds
“So if agents just get the exact same permissions that you had, then they'll just run into these walls everywhere and they won't be able to complete the process. And unlike a human, they're not going to know to go talk to Sally or ask the question of Bob. So th…”