Aaron Levie

But then I added three weeks of work to everybody else that wasn't on their plate.

So AI is going to do that a lot more than we realize because what's going to happen is it's going to expand the aperture of now all the things we can go work on.

I think embedded in there is an interesting kind of point about we will see stats of, okay, individual productivity goes up 10, 20, 30% with AI.

But like clearly at this stage in 2025, organization wide productivity is not 25 or 30% higher or already the economy would already be, you know, completely impacted.

And so there's some kind of dilution that happens through each kind of turn of the crank of incorporating the AI productivity into

into the larger system.

And similarly, there's, I don't know if you've ever read the book, The Goal, but it's all about basically process improvement.

And the book basically goes through exactly what you just said, which is, it sort of goes step by step and finds each of the individual bottlenecks in a particular kind of system.

And until you sort of figure out where is the bottleneck as the next sort of gating factor in productivity, you don't get any benefit at the other end of the

I can light up a project incredibly quickly.

But if every other corresponding part of that process is not also benefiting from AI, then all I've done is, in many cases, actually added more work, which then won't inherently even show up in productivity metrics, because I've actually now added even more tasks to the organization.

And we haven't yet gotten efficient enough to then sort of see the productivity gains across the organization for that.

So I think this is probably very much just a natural evolution of

I wasn't around for it, but I'm sure that like there was a multi, you know, probably decade plus evolution of like the first people with email in a corporation were like super productive.

But then they were ultimately bottlenecked by everybody else that didn't have email.

That was probably a decade long process for everybody to finally get wired up where you could efficiently communicate with everybody to the point where that showed up as a productivity gain.

Yeah, so I benefit from just... I'm already pre-wired to just love technology and always want to explore new things.

That's why we created Box.

And so I have a little bit of a natural advantage because this is what I do for fun.

My hobbies usually are just technology.