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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

Then on one hand, the APIs have to be super clean for the agent.

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

Then on one hand, the APIs have to be super clean for the agent.

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

On the other hand, you have to have a bunch of surrounding capabilities to ensure that that company can go to their regulator or auditor and say, yeah, we are complying with FINRA.

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

On the other hand, you have to have a bunch of surrounding capabilities to ensure that that company can go to their regulator or auditor and say, yeah, we are complying with FINRA.

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 that combination is what makes it so you would build that kind of agent on something like Box.

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 that combination is what makes it so you would build that kind of agent on something like Box.

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 persists across a variety of industries.

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 persists across a variety of industries.

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 do think that I've become more convinced that software is headless in the past year than I was maybe three years ago.

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 do think that I've become more convinced that software is headless in the past year than I was maybe three years ago.

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's because of the level of agentic capabilities on tool calling and searching across systems and the accuracy of that.

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's because of the level of agentic capabilities on tool calling and searching across systems and the accuracy of that.

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 has happened faster than I would have perceived.

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 has happened faster than I would have perceived.

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 two to three years ago, if you were to kind of wire up an agent and tell it, hey, go work inside of Box and find a document to work with and do some process, it would basically almost always find the wrong document and it wouldn't be able to handle actually like cracking open the file and reading through it.

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 two to three years ago, if you were to kind of wire up an agent and tell it, hey, go work inside of Box and find a document to work with and do some process, it would basically almost always find the wrong document and it wouldn't be able to handle actually like cracking open the file and reading through it.

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 so thus, you know, going headless wasn't sort of the most urgent priority from an agentic standpoint.

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 so thus, you know, going headless wasn't sort of the most urgent priority from an agentic standpoint.

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 in the past year, those capabilities have just

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 in the past year, those capabilities have just