How Box Is Building an AI-first Company—Without Cutting Jobs

TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper sits down with Aaron Levie, the cofounder and CEO of Box, a platform for businesses to securely manage and collaborate on all their content in the cloud. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Here’s a link to the episode transcript.

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Your new interns don’t eat lunch. They never try to sneak out of the office early or call in sick, but sometimes—for no apparent reason—they lie to your face. They save you huge amounts of time and let you accomplish more than you could before, but they need your mindful supervision.

This, according to Aaron Levie, is the new reality of every knowledge worker’s role: managing a team of AI agents.

Levie is the co-founder and CEO of Box, a platform that helps businesses to securely manage and collaborate on all their content in the cloud. He was among the first wave of tech CEOs to declare their companies “AI-first” in memos that made the rounds on X. In this episode of AI & I, Dan Shipper talks to Levie about why jobs aren’t going away, the new shape of work, and what it takes to build an AI-first company from the inside.