Aaron Levie
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876 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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We were the cloud.
So we kind of rode that.
We didn't, you know, so no pivot was involved.
We were not cloud from day one running on the cloud, but we were cloud to the customer.
Um and so we we, you know, probably actually the only sad thing was we actually had to build out infrastructure for the first decade uh and a half.
Because merely we started the company six two months too early.
So we started the company, and our first uh launch was on these uh co-located servers.
Um, and Amazon Web Services didn't launch until like maybe it was actually even a year later.
Um, but but basically, like we were off by like a year or a year and a half to AWS kind of existing.
So if we just started a little bit later, we would you know fully be able to ride the the cloud trend on the infrastructure side, but but we had to manage it.
So we were selling the idea of cloud to many companies.
And um and I think the maybe the biggest, the biggest difference today that I that I think about versus um uh versus the AI wave uh is in cloud, you had to spend, there was probably 10 years of convincing companies to trust the cloud.
And that they could relieve of managing data centers and and servers and the software themselves.
And they could trust moving that into a cloud environment.
Uh and you would go to banks uh and and it was just basically like a non-starter.
Like, like they basically the only meeting was to see if you would ever do an on-prem version.
They weren't there to meet with you about like your cloud version.
It was like, oh, this is nifty.
Like when are you gonna have the on-prem?
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