Good morning, everybody. This is Steven Sinovsky, and we're here with another edition of the A16 podcast.

This time joining me, this is going to be a first for us, and we're hoping to have a lot of fun here.

It is Aaron Levy, the co-founder and CEO of Box.

And we're going to talk about modern productivity and the transformation of IT.

And we also really want to start off by talking about a white paper that the folks at Box just

did called Mapping the Information Economy.

And it's a tale of five industries.

Fascinating, fascinating white paper.

And I think everybody should go and...

That was a sincere fascinating that you just...

Yeah, no.

You can't see there was no eye rolling, nothing.

No, it's actually, you know, I looked at it and, you know, what you guys did was so cool

because you, first, of course, everything was anonymous and private and all the people involved

knew that you were doing this.

But you looked at how people were using Box and across like some crazy enough, 225,000 businesses, 25 million

users and 2.5 billion times quarterly they were interacting with content. It's a lot of data.

Yeah. Like I think about the products that I designed and just we never had that kind

of day and I'm a guy who loves telemetry. So what did you learn in just in terms of being able to use that kind of data about how work is done in a modern way?

Yeah, so that's the numbers that you just cited are the sort of scale of our platform. And what we did was we zoomed into a few different industries and started to talk to clients that were using the products in different industries and try to understand how does

an enterprise use information in this new world. And it's really easy for us in Silicon Valley

to sort of generically talk about enterprise software and how enterprises use their data.

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