Aaron Levie

“Anthropic just paid $1.5 billion for stealing everybody's books, including mine, by the way. They trained on my book and I joined that class action lawsuit.”

“Prime Intellect's $130M Series A at a $1B valuation is the clearest signal.”

“Aaron Levy at Box has done the most eloquent job of explaining repeatedly the assets that exist in all of these Word and Excel documents strewn throughout a company... AI is the first thing to come along that really taps into that unstructured information in a company.”

“AI, it's sort of like this deceptive technology because it, like, it lets you get started on so many things so easily. But then you still have to complete all the things you started... And now I'm going to absolutely add another hour to my day.”

“Every one of our friends that had gotten acquired had already left their acquired company. So like that was probably not going to happen. So then you just look at it. You're like, OK, well, you're probably trying to do everything you can just to get back to this exact situation.”

“Most dollars in AI will eventually be enterprise dollars. There'll be some fantastic outcomes in consumer, no question... But by and large, where's intelligence valued? It's going to be in the enterprise.”

“They basically both believe in if you extrapolate out to AGI, then the Doomers believe that destroys us. And Elon believes that we get this utopia where everything is just done for us... I'm just in a third camp, which is it's like the same progress of maybe both of those two, but with more of a pragmatic outcome, which is like we use that technology to just then create a new set of needs.”

“We just solved that by getting a COO. And then I was like, oh God, there's some God-created role for people like me where somebody who wants to do operational stuff gets to do that. And then I get to still do product stuff, but also be CEO.”

“This is one of the most important changes in the AI landscape in the past four years.”

“Regulating at the model layer hands the government sole discretion over when a model reaches the public, based on risk judgments that stay inherently subjective... Levie's sharpest line: had this paradigm existed three years ago, we might still sit near GPT-4.”

“CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they're sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.”

“Aaron Levy then says, agentic coding is a huge move for software developers that want to get more done, and it's fantastic for anyone curious to learn how to start coding. What it's less great for is casually building complex software that you have to maintain on an ongoing basis.”

“Aaron Levy was on 20 Stebbin, Harry Stebbin's 20 VC this week and said, there's going to be a whole new category of 500K to a million dollar new year jobs for operators over the coming years. They're somewhat technical like you. You're not an engineer. You can't really code. But at this point, you're getting somewhat technical.”

“Aaron Levy was on Harry Stebbins 20VC this week and said there's going to be a whole new category of $500K to $1M new year jobs for operators over the coming years.”

“Aaron Levy was on 20 Stebbin, Harry Stebbin's 20 VC this week and said, there's going to be a whole new category of 500K to a million dollar new year jobs for operators over the coming years.”

“The big news last week was Salesforce... they went full headless. And they basically said, we want to be used everywhere across all of our different agents. And I see that as a little bit of a bellwether because I think as Salesforce goes, so does a lot of enterprise software.”

“We launched a box agent that gives a bunch more capabilities built into it... it searches across your whole box environment, but it doesn't have the same limitations of a human-based search where you type in one query, you get back a set of results... it fans out, does multiple queries, it can look through hundreds of results instantly and do its own re-ranking.”

“You are the most in-the-trenches CEO who is really talking to customers every single day in the enterprise... My job these days is just bring reality to the valley and then bring the valley to reality as much as possible.”