Aaron Levie Is Betting on Agents, Not Models

Aaron Levie has long been known as one of tech’s most outspoken and insightful CEOs. As the co-founder and CEO of Box, a content management and collaboration platform powering over 100,000 organizations, Levie is now at the center of one of enterprise software’s most pressing questions on how do you build a real AI business without losing focus or going to war over models? Speaking on the Mad Podcast, Levie opened up about Box’s AI strategy, what makes agent-based architecture valuable, and why he believes the majority of enterprise data still sits underutilized. “I would argue that probably for 95% of our data, people have things they would love to be able to do with it—but they just don't,” he said. Agents, he argued, could finally shift that equation by making once-unreal