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Aaron Levie

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

I would say that we're in a period right now where basically the market is being treated roughly as a kind of indiscriminately, you know, kind of bucketed sector.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

I would say that we're in a period right now where basically the market is being treated roughly as a kind of indiscriminately, you know, kind of bucketed sector.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

And the next year, two years or whatnot,

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

And the next year, two years or whatnot,

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

You'll start to see some separation and parsing between the companies because, as I noted in the beginning, agents will be really good for some parts of software and agents will put pressure on other parts of software.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

You'll start to see some separation and parsing between the companies because, as I noted in the beginning, agents will be really good for some parts of software and agents will put pressure on other parts of software.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

And it'll mean some companies have to fully pivot and some companies can just sort of ride the wave.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

And it'll mean some companies have to fully pivot and some companies can just sort of ride the wave.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

And if they respond effectively, clearly 3x free cash flow, that seems like aggressively low territory.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

And if they respond effectively, clearly 3x free cash flow, that seems like aggressively low territory.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

But I also think that at times in software, things have been aggressively overvalued.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

But I also think that at times in software, things have been aggressively overvalued.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

beyond the realm of likely what the terminal value is of particular category or company as well.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

beyond the realm of likely what the terminal value is of particular category or company as well.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

So I think there's just a pendulum that needs to kind of find its equilibrium right now.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

So I think there's just a pendulum that needs to kind of find its equilibrium right now.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

And that'll play out over the next year.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

And that'll play out over the next year.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

This one's hard.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Everyone is Wrong; We Will Have More Developers in Five Years | Why Frontier Labs Will Be Way More Valuable Than They Are Today | Are SaaS Companies Cooked: Which Thrive & Which Die with Aaron Levie, Founder at Box

This one's hard.