Aaron Levie
29 statements across 8 episodes · 20 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 22, 2024 by Aaron Levie · said 23 times in 11 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- The Real ROI of AI Tokens — With Dallas Dolen
- Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
- The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
- Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
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2025 16 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
- Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest
- Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
- OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
- Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
- Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
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Everything said about Aaron Levie, oldest first
May 22, 2024 bullish
Levie: Companies will scale by adding compute instead of human headcount
“And the equation goes from, okay, I got to call the HR team. I've got to make sure we have budget. We have to go hire a lot of people to now it's like, well, do you want like a hundred leads or a thousand leads or 10,000 leads? Not, and that's not going to be …”
May 23, 2024 bullish
May 23, 2024 neutral
Levie: AI won't destroy startup jobs because founders weren't hiring anyway
“And I don't think it's going to take, you know, from jobs because those startups previously, just like they actually were not hiring those people. They were just sort of stuck In whatever they were currently doing at a certain scale that they were at.”
May 23, 2024 bullish
Levie: In 3-5 years, AI will give startups scaled sales and engineering
“AI as an example, this is, you know, three to five years out for this idea, but like if AI can basically do the things you know, that, that are usually those first steps to just getting started with the business. That, that I didn't have access to before becau…”
May 5, 2025 positive
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Jul 14, 2025 positive
Jul 14, 2025 neutral
Sep 18, 2025 positive
Levie: Companies Should Buy Purpose-Built AI Rather Than Building Internally
“You need to have purpose-built solutions that, that solve sort of tailored use cases. Those can be very big use cases, like all of AI coding, but you probably don't want to be in a position where you have to kind of bootstrap this or build it all out yourselve…”
Sep 18, 2025 bullish
Levie: Enterprise AI ROI Is So High Employees Hide It From Boards
“We've talked to customers where where they have had, had colleagues that, that can't actually they can't present the actual ROI savings to their board. The actual kind of expected ROI savings to the board because the board won't believe how, how they won't bel…”
Sep 18, 2025 bullish
Sep 18, 2025 positive
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Levie: Total AI market cap will reach tens of trillions of dollars
“We're talking about a category where, you know, it'll be measured in the tens of trillions of dollars. The market caps that will be generated by AI. Some of that will go to the chip providers. Some of that will go to the supply chain of the chip providers. Som…”
Feb 23, 2026 neutral
Levie: Nvidia relies on chip supply, not equity, to influence OpenAI
“They don't need to own a percentage of open AI. Like that's like, they need to sell chips to open AI. And so really they just need to ensure that they've got a very strong, you know, relationship that is, is sort of very sturdy and supporting the broad tailwin…”
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Levie: Altman's 2028 superintelligence timeline is totally reasonable
“I think that, that there's kind of, that seems to be totally reasonable based on the trajectory that we're on. And I would bet that, that Sam has an even a far higher bar for what his definition of, you know, intellectual or whatever the term was, then even I …”
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Levie: Autonomous task delegation is now the dominant AI coding paradigm
“You're not in an IDE. You're not coding alongside it. You're just setting off a task, and it's going to go and do a bunch of work for you. And now, obviously, it's very clear that that's the dominant paradigm that we're going to be in. Codex has proven it. You…”
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Apr 8, 2026 bullish
Aaron Levie: AI Development Is Nowhere Close to Hitting a Wall
“I think certainly probably the biggest takeaway is just like we are nowhere close to hitting a wall. I remember it was probably only about a year ago where there was a lot of talk on like, oh, have we hit a wall? And these things are only kind of eking out, yo…”
Apr 8, 2026 positive
Levie: AI agents will turn video editors into senior review directors
“But I actually think that that you'll still have that ultimate person. Maybe what they'll review is five different cuts as options. And they are now playing the role of the, you know, the most senior editor in a, you know, TV show that, that, that, that, that …”
Apr 8, 2026 bearish
Levie: AI labs will not accept liability for enterprise use cases
“The labs are not going to, you know, take on the liability for every single use case that you do. They're gonna have very narrow liability that they have around copyright and IP protection and stuff like that, but they're not gonna, you know, they're not gonna…”
Apr 8, 2026
Apr 8, 2026 bullish
Apr 8, 2026 bullish
Levie: Box Benchmark Shows Double-Digit LLM Gains in Four Months
“We have an eval that we give all of the new models. It's basically a complex knowledge work task, which is we give the, an agent a set of documents to work with, and then we ask it a series of very, very hard questions that we think correlate to pretty high en…”
Apr 8, 2026 neutral
Levie: AI systems have a strict trade-off between speed and accuracy
“There is one thing in AI that, that is is just like there's just no free lunch which is that you can have something fast, like insanely fast, but like moderately accurate or pretty accurate and insanely slow. Right. And like, you just get to choose.”
Apr 8, 2026 bearish
Apr 8, 2026
Levie: AI agents should have separate inboxes, not personal access
“The common practice and sort of state of the art is, is effectively don't give open claw or something access to your inbox. Create a separate inbox for the agent. And really treat that agent as a, another colleague that you're working with. And so it has its o…”
Jun 26, 2026 neutral
Levie: Governments will evaluate and green-light AI model releases within 3-5 years
“I think practically in the next three to five years, we probably have to end up in an environment where models do get evaluated by the government. There is a sort of collaborative approach between the government and research and the labs. You know, the governm…”
Jun 26, 2026 positive
Levie: Current AI agent spending is sustainable due to engineering use cases
“I would say the vast majority of the current agent expend that's happening is sustainable because partly because it's actually coming mostly from engineering and engineering related, related tasks. And this is an audience that is kind of technically capable of…”