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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

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

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

into the larger system.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

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.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

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.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

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

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

I can light up a project incredibly quickly.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

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.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

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

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

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

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

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.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

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

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

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.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

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

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

That's why we created Box.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

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

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

My hobbies usually are just technology.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

It's not like I don't do fly fishing.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

So I already love technology.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

I love to play with technology.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Inside Box’s AI playbook with founder & CEO Aaron Levie

Most of my social friends are doing technology or AI.