Levie: Companies will scale by adding compute instead of human headcount
Aaron Levie · Box CEO Aaron Levie — What Cheaper, Faster, and Smarter AI Gets Us · May 22, 2024 · at 24:48
Box CEO Aaron Levie discusses with Alex Kantrowitz how artificial intelligence reshapes corporate problem-solving and organizational scaling models.
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“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 driven by how many people I hire. It's going to be driven by how much compute I have. Do I want to, you know, test, you know, 90% of my software for bugs, or 95% of my software bugs, or a hundred percent of my software for bugs? It's not, again, how many, let's say, test cases I write, or quality engineers I hire, it's how much compute I throw. So, you can kind of, you know, work through, like, how much of business now can become a problem, ah, ah, ah, where, where we can throw compute at the problem to basically solve it, and it's just like a different way to think about, you know, organizing your company, how you scale your company and ultimately, you know, the role of kind of intellectual labor instead of a business.”
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