The enterprise AI revolution is underway, with Box’s Aaron Levie

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🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The buzz in Silicon Valley around AI agents has many asking: What’s real and what’s hype? Box’s co-founder and CEO, Aaron Levie, joins Rapid Response to help decipher between fact and fiction, taking listeners inside the fast-paced evolution of agents and its impact on the future of enterprise AI. Plus, Levie unpacks how AI is really being adopted in the workplace, what it takes to legitimately build an AI-first organization, and what political leaders across both parties misunderstand about creating the best environment for technology to thrive.

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0:00.0	In today's high-speed business world, staying ahead means using the smartest tools possible,
0:06.4	including the powerful capabilities of artificial intelligence.
0:10.6	Meet Turing Intelligence.
0:13.0	Turing builds customizable AI systems designed to solve your mission-critical challenges, no matter your industry.
0:20.0	From expert guidance to tailored projects,
0:22.6	Turing helps top companies realize AI that's more capable, more adaptable, and more effective.
0:29.5	With Turing, discover how AI can accelerate your business growth. Visit Turing.com to learn more.
0:36.1	That's Turing.com.
0:39.4	If you're focused on scaling your business, you know the complexity kills efficiency, which is why FreshWorks is here to give you uncomplicated service software.
0:50.7	Freshworks builds intuitive tools that make work easier and deliver real ROI today, not someday.
0:58.1	Their AI doesn't replace your people, it unlocks their potential.
1:02.7	If you want to increase your team's efficiency and uncomplicate your business,
1:06.7	try fresh service for IT and fresh desk for customer support.
1:11.6	Learn more at freshworks.com.
1:17.4	Having done this now for 20 years, starting right at the start of the cloud, seeing the iPhone, seeing the iPad, this is absolutely the fastest I've ever seen tech move by at least
1:29.3	five to 10x. Every week, something is happening that is causing this category to shift in some
1:35.0	direction. Something will happen at 10 p.m. and there'll be like a group chat with with AI friends.
1:41.0	Everybody's blowing up like, oh my God, I can't believe this just happened. And then it'll be an internal slack with, you know, 15 people on the AI team of, oh, God, we
1:48.4	have to jump on this. And it's just like, hope everybody has, you know, had their family dinner.
1:53.0	And that's all behind them because now we're back wired in on what's happening.
2:05.7	That's Aaron Levy, founder and CEO of Box.
2:12.1	I put Aaron on the cover of Fast Company a decade ago to represent how a generation of new leaders were embracing adaptability.
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