Aaron Levie

If you deploy one AI coding tool versus another, that is not something you want to leave to chance.

So that's why eventually I still think that it becomes IT or engineering or whatever we want to call it.

But it's a technical function that will have to basically be that counterpart to the CEO, to be very clear.

Or...

Maybe there'll be a lot of organizations say, okay, HR, you should go define what this looks like.

But the CTO, the CIO, the CDO, the chief AI officer, that's the right hand to kind of getting through that journey.

Yeah, I mean, this is super interesting.

And I would say that my thinking on this continues to evolve.

And so in five years from now, I reserve the right to be totally on a different, have a different view.

Right now, I think that for existing categories of technology, a lot of the incumbents are very good.

They're with it in terms of this latest tech breakthrough.

This is not an environment where

I don't meet a lot of incumbent CEOs of software companies that have their head in the sand on this movement.

If you compare that to, let's take a snapshot of 2007, let's just say, and if you were to go to ask the incumbent software companies

how much are you going to invest in cloud?

So you go talk to the CEO of SAP, the CEO of, you know, at the time, Larry Ellison, et cetera.

And you say, how much of your business is going to be cloud first right now?

There was this kind of culture of resistance.

Larry was actually a big thought leader on cloud.

There was a little bit of a time where they took longer than they probably should have to move to the cloud.