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Levie: In 10 years, most enterprise work will be previously uneconomic tasks
“If we go 10 years into the future, The vast majority of work that gets done in 10 years from now will be work that today is in that category. It's the work that like right now we can't even attack because we're like, I'm not going to hire somebody, pay them a …”
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2030
Levie: 100 Startups Created Between 2024-2028 Will Reach $5B to $20B Valuations
“There will be 100 startups that get created between last year and in three years from now that all become five, 10, twenty billion dollar companies because they're able to find the next set of nouns and verbs”
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Levie: Customers will pay for workflow software rather than raw tokens
“So eventually we're going to get to a point where customers are no longer going to just be paying for the intelligence tokens. They're going to be paying for the workflow software that goes on top of the tokens themselves.”
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Levie: AI tool makers will maintain flat pricing despite falling compute costs
“It's like, it's 20 bucks a month, it's 50 bucks a month, but we know that in 10 years from now, they'll probably be able to drive down their raw materials lower, but we won't be able to command lower prices for those things, because it's just like within a rea…”
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Levie: Incumbents will only sell AI agents to existing install bases
“Because I think incumbents are only going to be the agent providers for their existing install base, which means that there's going to be tons of opportunity for so many more agents that those incumbents aren't already selling into.”
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Levie: Salesforce and Marc Benioff Will Successfully Implement AI for CRM
“It won't just be like, oh, it's CRM, but with AI, because Mark Benioff in Salesforce is going to do CRM with AI. Like he's going to figure out a way to do that. He's they're very good at executing like that will happen.”
Insight
Levie: AI agents replace per-seat SaaS pricing with work volume pricing
“Agents basically completely blows that up because all of a sudden you can have AI agents that effectively contain the labor of that job function in the software itself. So you can go to a company and you can say, I know you only have three lawyers, but my agen…”
Insight
Levie: Do not start companies in markets untouched by AI transformation
“If your market is not truly transformed by AI, don't touch it. It's not, it's just not worth it because you're going to be fighting against a headwind that is just unnecessary to fight against. Like go after markets where AI like fundamentally changes like the…”
Insight
Levie: Slow Enterprise AI Adoption Is Due to Change Velocity, Not Disbelief
“So conversely with AI you're no longer really having to convince people that AI is the future. Everybody tends to be bought in, in the enterprise segment. There's a lot of still slowness in adoption in large enterprises. But it's not because people aren't conv…”
Insight
Levie: Most time in companies is spent on necessary but non-strategic work
“The vast majority of time inside of a company is on the stuff that really is not strategic. It's sort of necessary work, but it's not strategic to get done.”
Opinion
Levie: Startups have few viable vectors to compete with Gusto in payroll
“You don't really want to compete with Gusto because Gusto is still a modern, really good payroll system. There's not like a lot of vectors into competing with Gusto.”
Insight
Levie: Pure consumption pricing threatens software recurring revenue predictability
“The only, you know, concern that you have to have of going of overly veering on consumption is the recurring nature of the revenue. You generally want to be in a position where you have some kind of subscription fee for your software, as opposed to only being …”
Insight
Levie: B2B founders must master three essential strategy books
“Read Innovator's Dilemma.
Read Crossing the Chasm.
Read Blue Ocean Strategy.
Those are the three books you have to read.
If you do what's in those books, and you are going after the B to B market, I guarantee you will be 10 times better off than any other star…”
Insight
Levie: 20-somethings should defer existential questions and focus on commercial grind
“Like you're in your twenties. So like I was just heads down grinding, not overly worried about the meaning of life. So I'd say like, put a pin in that. Be nice to everybody. Like, help the world as much as possible. Check back in in about five years. Like, now…”
Insight
Levie: Founders should always overestimate competitors' capabilities when planning strategy
“I think it's always good to overestimate your competitor's capabilities and then figure out your strategy in a world where they have those capabilities.”
Disclosure
Levie: Box only translates ad campaigns into 3 to 5 languages due to cost
“When we, you know, launch an ad campaign internally, we translate it into like three to five languages. Our top markets, that's about all we have time for because it's just too expensive.”
Aaron Levie