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Levie: Software companies will not get an AI price premium
“You will grow faster because you're entering new markets, but you won't grow faster because there's some kind of like magical AI premium on your software. And those are two things to kind of decouple, which is like the price that you can charge because you hav…”
Levie: Token costs and budgeting comprise one-third of top AI issues
“When we go and talk to organizations right now about where they are with agents tokens, the cost of tokens and budgeting and budget planning and all of this probably is at least one third of the hottest button issues that relate to AI.”
Aaron Levie raised hundreds of thousands from Mark Cuban via cold email
“I had emailed Mark Cuban. He got back to us in, like, 10 minutes and said, interesting company. We started working on, like, a partnership, weirdly in in one of his in one of his companies, and then that sort of parlayed into an investment, so we ended up rais…”
Levie: AI will expand Box's TAM without disrupting seat pricing
“Like, we think the TAM of our category goes up because of AI and the business model doesn't get like severely disrupted in the sense of we used to be selling seats and now all of a sudden something totally different, it's seats and then something in addition t…”
Mark Cuban had Travis Kalanick conduct due diligence on Box in 2005
“As a part of the due diligence for the company he had us meet Travis Kalanick. So he invested in Travis at this company called Red Swoosh. And so so I had met Travis in LA and Travis was basically like Mark asked me to meet you know, see if everything's above …”
Levie: Box considered training a foundation model for '10 minutes'
“We considered it for 10 minutes, and we said no effing way are we gonna get in this war?”
Levie: Abandon custom AI scaffolding when foundational models advance natively
“If anybody has a breakthrough in the model space that we have built scaffolding or plumbing around to mitigate the lack of that breakthrough previously, we should just like kill our stuff and just adopt whatever that breakthrough is.”
Box raised its first $80k round at a $240k or $320k valuation
“We rated it 80,000 dollars for a post money of I believe this is the post money. It was either two 40 or three 20, but the post money was either 240 K Or 320 K. We raised 80, 80,000.”
Levie: Box is enabling Cursor for its VS Code developers
“We're enabling cursor for the VS Code crowd to be able to use.”
Levie: Box’s AI team is the largest group in the company
“Cause now our AI team is probably the biggest team. Yeah. Easily the biggest team in the whole company in terms of kind of any one group.”
Levie: Box officially supports Gemini, Anthropic, and OpenAI models
“We officially support Gemini family. We support anthropic, you know, variety of cloud models and then support open AI and the GPTs.”
Levie: Box launched a year before AWS, forcing self-built infrastructure
“We actually had to build out infrastructure for the first decade and a half because merely we started the company six months too early. So we started the company and our first launch was on these co-located servers. And Amazon web services didn't launch until …”