# Aaron Levie

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Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Aaron Levie (CEO, Box) talking, from an interview on The Logan Bartlett Show published Mar 28, 2025.

- Role: CEO, Box

## What Aaron Levie said

- [AI agents can expand software into service budgets](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-agents-can-expand-software-into-service-budgets/)
  The Logan Bartlett Show · Mar 28, 2025 · 4 min
  > “Contract management software as a category is like a couple billion dollars, like globally in the world. Legal services is a couple hundred billion dollar category.” — Aaron Levie · [15:43](https://realalpha.app/v/g9E7iCnYOoI/?t=943)
- [Enterprise AI demand is unlike early cloud adoption](https://realalpha.app/s/enterprise-ai-demand-is-unlike-early-cloud-adoption/)
  The Logan Bartlett Show · Mar 28, 2025 · 4 min
  > “we know this is going to change everything. Everybody's clamoring for it. Every employee needs it.” — Aaron Levie · [29:41](https://realalpha.app/v/g9E7iCnYOoI/?t=1781)
- [AI-generated software does not remove customer responsibility](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-generated-software-does-not-remove-customer/)
  The Logan Bartlett Show · Mar 28, 2025 · 5 min
  > “the AI provider that has made the agent that wrote your, you know, your HR system is not taking responsibility for the HR system code that was generated.” — Aaron Levie · [40:26](https://realalpha.app/v/g9E7iCnYOoI/?t=2426)
- [Standalone model vendors face a pricing squeeze](https://realalpha.app/s/standalone-model-vendors-face-a-pricing-squeeze/)
  The Logan Bartlett Show · Mar 28, 2025 · 4 min
  > “it actually performed only like a couple of points worse than Gemini on, on our evals” — Aaron Levie · [3:49](https://realalpha.app/v/g9E7iCnYOoI/?t=229)
- [Business agents have clearer product-market fit than consumer agents](https://realalpha.app/s/business-agents-have-clearer-product-market-fit-than/)
  The Logan Bartlett Show · Mar 28, 2025 · 3 min
  > “Mostly our problem is we can't keep up with all the range of use cases customers want.” — Aaron Levie · [10:36](https://realalpha.app/v/g9E7iCnYOoI/?t=636)
- [AI products can build switching costs through accumulated learning](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-products-can-build-switching-costs-through-accumulated/)
  The Logan Bartlett Show · Mar 28, 2025 · 8 min
  > “So, you know, so the more black box or obfuscated or non-UI oriented it is, to me, doesn't necessarily correlate to its stickiness.” — Aaron Levie · [26:02](https://realalpha.app/v/g9E7iCnYOoI/?t=1562)
- [Fast-moving AI layers should stay replaceable](https://realalpha.app/s/fast-moving-ai-layers-should-stay-replaceable/)
  The Logan Bartlett Show · Mar 28, 2025 · 3 min
  > “There's multiple parts of box where we use multiple model providers for the same workflow.” — Aaron Levie · [36:52](https://realalpha.app/v/g9E7iCnYOoI/?t=2212)
- [Topic-specific hubs give enterprise AI a clearer source of truth](https://realalpha.app/s/topic-specific-hubs-give-enterprise-ai-a-clearer-source-of/)
  The Logan Bartlett Show · Mar 28, 2025 · 3 min
  > “If you go to a hub, in our case, you kind of know by hub, what does it have access to?” — Aaron Levie · [54:24](https://realalpha.app/v/g9E7iCnYOoI/?t=3264)

## The episode

- [Box CEO on Enterprise AI Trends No One is Talking About Yet](https://realalpha.app/v/g9E7iCnYOoI/) · The Logan Bartlett Show · Mar 28, 2025