Aaron Levie

I think there's some software where because the person was the user of the software and they were clicking all the buttons, that your sort of ratio of buttons to underlying APIs was like more in favor of buttons.

I think there's some software where because the person was the user of the software and they were clicking all the buttons, that your sort of ratio of buttons to underlying APIs was like more in favor of buttons.

And I'm oversimplifying, but there are some tools where you open it up and there's like 93 features that you're kind of clicking around on and the user has been so accustomed to exactly how to do that

And I'm oversimplifying, but there are some tools where you open it up and there's like 93 features that you're kind of clicking around on and the user has been so accustomed to exactly how to do that

that the software's value proposition was correlated to roughly that sort of mass.

that the software's value proposition was correlated to roughly that sort of mass.

In a world of APIs and a world of agents being able to do more of the work that you used to do on clicking those buttons, then again, the value goes more to the API layer.

In a world of APIs and a world of agents being able to do more of the work that you used to do on clicking those buttons, then again, the value goes more to the API layer.

So then the question is, how many APIs do you have?

So then the question is, how many APIs do you have?

Not in like a, you just need a thousand APIs, but like,

Not in like a, you just need a thousand APIs, but like,

how robust and useful and proprietary and how much business logic is embedded in those APIs versus it's just calling a database and pulling a record.

how robust and useful and proprietary and how much business logic is embedded in those APIs versus it's just calling a database and pulling a record.

Does the API surround a set of business logic of like, no, it actually secures the data or it knows exactly what person each piece of attribute should have access to inside the organization.

Does the API surround a set of business logic of like, no, it actually secures the data or it knows exactly what person each piece of attribute should have access to inside the organization.

At the end of the day, all software has a database behind it.

At the end of the day, all software has a database behind it.

So you could oversimplify it and be quite reductive to that.

So you could oversimplify it and be quite reductive to that.