Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

Aaron Levie, CEO & co-founder of Box, joins Azeem Azhar to explore how an “AI-first” mindset is reshaping every layer of Box – from product road-maps to pricing – and what that teaches the rest of us about building faster, smarter organisations. Timestamps: (00:00) Episode trailer (02:04) The "lump of labor fallacy" in sci-fi books (07:37) When individual productivity gains don’t translate to teams (12:32) Box’s Friday AI demos (21:23) How agents might redefine 100 years of management science (26:37) A lesson on AI innovation from the early days of Ford (29:52) Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and Sergey Brin are coding again? (35:16) Pricing in a post-AI agent world (38:43) Cheaper tokens, heavier usage: AI’s margin math (43:02) Solving AI’s verifiability problem (48:24) How Aaron uses AI in his personal life Aaron's links:Box: https://www.box.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boxaaron/X/Twitter: https://x.com/levie Azeem’s links:Substack: https://www.exponentialview.co/Website: https://www.azeemazhar.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azharX/Twitter: https://x.com/azeem This conversation was recorded for “Friday with Azeem Azhar”, live every Friday at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET. Catch it via Exponential View on Substack. Produced by supermix.io and EPIIPLUS1 Ltd