Box CEO Aaron Levie on AI agents, enterprise data, and the future of work
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🗓️ 17 May 2025
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Summary
Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie joins the GeekWire Podcast to talk about the company’s latest AI initiatives, including a new integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot and a suite of Box AI agents designed to help businesses analyze content, extract data, and generate insights.
Levie shares how AI is changing the way he and his team work, explains why he believes 2025 is still “day one” for enterprise AI agents, and offers a realistic take on what AI can — and can’t — do today. He also reflects on Box’s evolution, the shifting role of content in the enterprise, and why he thinks AI is creating more work, not less.
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| 0:19.3 | You know, we'll look back in a couple of years and we'll see that like probably something on the |
| 0:24.1 | order of like 90% of the work that AI is doing in a couple years for now is work that humans |
| 0:29.7 | never did before AI. |
| 0:31.4 | It's just all net new work that we just never, never were executing on. |
| 0:36.0 | This is why you're still struggling to reach work-life balance. |
| 0:38.9 | Exactly, 100%. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm finding just more to have the AI do, |
| 0:41.9 | and then I end up doing more work as a result of that. |
| 0:48.1 | That is Aaron Levy, the CEO and co-founder of Box. |
| 0:52.3 | Founded in 2005 by Levy and his friend and fellow Mercer Island |
| 0:56.5 | High School alum, Dylan Smith, Box began as a simple file sharing service. It has since evolved |
| 1:02.9 | into a platform for what the company calls intelligent content management. Now it's betting that |
| 1:08.6 | AI can help customers get more value out of all that content. |
| 1:13.1 | Box went public in 2015. It has about 2,800 employees, and it reported more than a billion |
| 1:18.9 | dollars in revenue last year with nearly 245 million in profits. I'm Todd Bishop, and this week |
| 1:25.1 | on the Geekwire podcast, we get into what's real and what's |
| 1:28.3 | not when it comes to AI agents, how AI is changing Levy's own work habits, and why he says |
| 1:35.0 | Box feels more like a startup today than it has in many years. Hey, Aaron, thanks very much for talking |
| 1:41.1 | with me. Thanks for having me. Looking forward to it. Yeah. So I was looking back at the Geekwire Archives. |
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